Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: Add auto-cc to all body signatures

From: Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Date: Dec 2, 2015, 10:04 UTC
Message-ID: <87mvtti2ul.fsf@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
In-Reply-To: <1323377486.1762.71.camel@joe2Laptop>

On Thu, Dec 08 2011, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 11:37 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> writes:
>> > Many types of signatures are used by various projects.
>> > The most common type is formatted:
>> > 	"[some_signature_type]-by: First Last <email@domain.tld>"
>> > e.g:
>> > 	"Reported-by: First Last <email@domain.tld>" (no quotes are used)
>> This is just a phrasing issue, but I am a bit reluctant about the name
>> "signature".
>
> I've called all these markings signatures.
> Maybe email-address-tags or another name could be used.
> I'm not bothered one way or another by any chosen name.

It's been four years, but I recently ran into this. I mistakenly thought that git would actually pick up cc addresses also from Reported-by, so the reporter ended up not being cc'ed. Is there any chance this could be revisited, or should I use a --cc-cmd to do what I want?

Rasmus