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Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: treat field names as case-independent

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NZNickolai Zeldovich <nickolai@csail.mit.edu>
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Jan 7, 2013, 03:38 UTC
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On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> While I think this patch is a sensible thing to do, I at the same
> time wonder who is writing "cc:" in the lowercase in the first
> place, and if that is one of our tools, we should fix that part as
> well.  Such a header would leak out to the payload given to the
> underlying sendmail, doesn't it?

In my case, I wrote the "cc:" headers by hand; it was not a result of any automated tool. (Yes, the header makes it into the message payload. This makes the bug all the more annoying: other people's replies get cc:ed to the right address, but the original message never gets sent there.)

Nickolai.
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