From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:30:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Failure to extra stable@vger.kernel.org addresses
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In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s3+vnKfhhh=qqU2vuKvWwhii4CQ7=YAuhFiceX1EDaVKQ@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@podlesie.net> wrote:
>
>> --- a/git-send-email.perl
>> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
>> @@ -924,6 +924,10 @@ sub quote_subject {
>>  # use the simplest quoting being able to handle the recipient
>>  sub sanitize_address {
>>         my ($recipient) = @_;
>> +
>> +       # remove garbage after email address
>> +       $recipient =~ s/(.*?<[^>]*>).*$/$1/;
>
> That won't work for 'foo@bar.com # test'. I think we should abandon
> hopes of properly parsing an email address and just do:
>
> $recipient =~ s/(.*?) #.*$/$1/;

We should probably fix the tools that generate these bogus
non-addresses first.  What's wrong with

	Cc: stable kernel (v3.5 v3.6 v3.7) <stable@vger.kernel.org>

which should be OK?

Also I suspect that this should be also deemed valid:

	Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (Stable kernel - v3.5 v3.6 v3.7)