Re: Suppressing auto-cc for specific addresses

From: Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 8, 2011, 21:01 UTC
Message-ID: <CACTFLAN1oXHtEtoo7kzvTqaiSv0zvmbkPU703iZsztCWdg4HhQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110808204448.GF18294@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 12:58:55PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:56 PM, David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > git send-email has a --[no-]signed-off-by-cc option and configuration
>> > variable. --
>>
>> I know, but that's not the point. It about having a certain address
>> metioned in a ^Cc: line inside the patch and suppress sending off
>> emails to that specific address. And --suppress-cc currently only
>> allows categories to be set, not addresses.
>
> I'm kind of confused why you would mark an address as "cc", but not cc
> it. Wouldn't it make sense to call the header something else?

Valid point. Even though Greg doesn't have a problem with the current procedure as it stands, I see a problem in marking things for "Cc: stable@kernel.org" just as a search pattern once they hit the Linux mainline tree. Particularily because as it will end up in the recipient list with git send-email, stable@ will get all the follow-ups and discussions when people blindly hit the Reply-to-all button (which we tell them to do). I for one would add stable@kernel.org to my .gitconfig and be done with it, without ever thinking about it again.

It's really not a big thing, and we can drop this patch if anyone has real objections, but as it doesn't break anything for existing use cases and might help others, why not apply it?

Daniel