From: Teemu Likonen Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:49:00 GMT Subject: Re: Changing the defaults for send-email / suppress-cc ? Message-ID: <87ljrphjxv.fsf@iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <7d1d9c250902281129t1ea0d9d0k796d97bdd0af046d@mail.gmail.com> On 2009-02-28 14:29 (-0500), Paul Gortmaker wrote: > I've been involved in helping people who are new git users, and the > one thing that seems to violate the principle of least surprise for > them is the default setting for the sendemail.suppresscc -- in that > the new users don't expect the additional CC lines to be automatically > added based on what is present in the content of the mbox > (format-patch output). > In light of this, I've simply advised new users to run something like: > > git config --global sendemail.suppresscc all > > ...just so that they won't accidentally do what I've described in the > above. Agreed. In the past I have sent a couple of test patches to wrong places because of these automatic CCs. I think that send-email or any e-mail client should only send mail for addresses which user has explicitly selected or otherwise confirmed. With a time machine I would make the opposite option for send-email: something like sendemail.autocc and --autocc=. Then user would configure different recipient categories who she wants to send automatic CCs. It's easier to think this way. But we don't have a time machine so at least some kind confirm message would be nice.