From: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:51:11 GMT
Subject: Re: send-email and in-reply-to = n
Message-ID: <CAOeW2eGZm7PLRaktjQQdDJm2BqAihS0pzsY2GUNFUO83s8qBPQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vfw7qbb7y.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Can we throw up a big warning or just outright fail if someone types
>> 'n' or 'y' and hits enter for the in-reply-to question in
>> git-send-email? I saw a git-send-email sent patch with an In-Reply-To
>> header containing n on lkml today and it makes threading in my mail
>> client get confused.
>
> Yeah, I think it is a good idea to minimally sanity check the answer
> to in-reply-to (and possibly other fields); perhaps "does it have @
> and dot" would be a good enough heuristics.
>
> Please make it so ;-)

And if you do, please include the check for the value for the From:
header in the "and possibly other fields". I made the same mistake
when asked about that value just a few days ago.