[PATCH/RFC] send-email: allow multiple emails using --cc --to and --bcc

From: Remi LESPINET <remi.lespinet@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: May 29, 2015, 16:05 UTC
Message-ID: <87oal32wuj.fsf@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq382giokd.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Remi Lespinet <remi.lespinet@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

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>     Accept a list of emails separated by commas in flags --cc, --to
>     and --bcc.  Multiple addresses can already be given by using
>     these options multiple times, but it is more convenient to allow
>     cutting-and-pasting a list of addresses from the header of an
>     existing e-mail message, which already lists them as
>     comma-separated list, as a value to a single parameter.
>
> perhaps?

I've taken this description for the first part of the commit message. Thanks!

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> > before handling more complex ones such as names with commas:
> >         $ git send-email --to='Foo, Bar <foobar@example.com>'
> 
> Shouldn't this example send to two users, i.e. a local user Foo and
> the mailbox 'foobar' at example.com whose human-readable name is
> Bar?  If so, that is a bad example to illustrate the aspiration for
> the finished patch?

Yes, that works if Foo is in an alias file, so that's clearly a bad example, I added quotes:

	git send-email --to='"Foo, Bar" <foobar@example.com>'

Thanks!