From: Stephen Boyd Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:24:36 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: validate & reconfirm interactive responses Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1344983132-22578-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > @@ -745,13 +752,15 @@ sub file_declares_8bit_cte { > if (!defined $sender) { > $sender = $repoauthor || $repocommitter || ''; > $sender = ask("Who should the emails appear to be from? [$sender] ", > - default => $sender); > + default => $sender, > + valid_re => qr/\@.*\./, confirm_only => 1); This is now bugging me if I just hit enter and don't want to specify anything for these headers (I want the defaults or what's in the files already). Can we allow the empty string to be valid as well so I don't have to go through these prompts?