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Re: send-email and in-reply-to = n

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 13, 2012, 23:53 UTC
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Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> writes:
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> Can we throw up a big warning or just outright fail if someone types
> 'n' or 'y' and hits enter for the in-reply-to question in
> git-send-email? I saw a git-send-email sent patch with an In-Reply-To
> header containing n on lkml today and it makes threading in my mail
> client get confused.

Yeah, I think it is a good idea to minimally sanity check the answer to in-reply-to (and possibly other fields); perhaps "does it have @ and dot" would be a good enough heuristics.

Please make it so ;-)
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Message 2 of 13 in “send-email and in-reply-to = n”
  1. Stephen BoydAug 13, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2012
  3. Martin von ZweigbergkAug 14, 2012
  4. send-email: validate & reconfirm interactive responsesJunio C Hamano, Aug 14, 2012
  5. Martin von ZweigbergkAug 14, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2012
  7. Stephen BoydSep 5, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoSep 6, 2012
  9. Stephen BoydSep 6, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 6, 2012
  11. send-email: initial_to and initial_reply_to are both optionalJunio C Hamano, Sep 6, 2012
  12. Stephen BoydSep 6, 2012
  13. Stephen BoydSep 6, 2012

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