Re: Failure to extra stable@vger.kernel.org addresses

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:57:47AM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>> 
>> for whatever reason my git has started acting up with
>> stable@vger.kernel.org addresses. It doesn't manage to extract a valid
>> adress from the string:
>> 
>>  Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.4 v3.5 v3.6
>> 
>> Removing the comment at the end of the line makes things work again. I
>> do remember, however, seeing this working since few weeks back I sent a
>> mail to stable (in fact the same one I'm using to test), so this could
>> be related to some perl updates, who knows ?!?
>
> You probably just installed Email::Valid package.
>
> The current git-send-email works a little better and just prints an error:
>
> W: unable to extract a valid address from: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #v3.4 v3.5 v3.6
>
>
> This patch should fix the problem, now after <email> any garbage is
> removed while extracting address.
>
> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> index 5a7c29d..bb659da 100755
> --- a/git-send-email.perl
> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
> @@ -828,7 +828,7 @@ sub extract_valid_address {
>  	# check for a local address:
>  	return $address if ($address =~ /^($local_part_regexp)$/);
>  
> -	$address =~ s/^\s*<(.*)>\s*$/$1/;
> +	$address =~ s/^\s*<(.*)>.*$/$1/;
>  	if ($have_email_valid) {
>  		return scalar Email::Valid->address($address);
>  	} else {