Re: How to use --cc-cmd in git-send-email?

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Jul 20, 2015, 18:07 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cS3NxpTLJL42oV_JpxEjAJSCwrdSuJCWMQxfwK4QjEx8Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <28D6CFA8D1964D34B1E7F28325AF94A8@PhilipOakley>

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> wrote:

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> From: "Eric Sunshine" <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
>> wrote:
>>> I may try and do a small doc patch for the git-send-email.txt man page (I
>>> have a few doc fixes backing up waiting to be done ;-)
>>
>> That would be welcome. I don't think it's mentioned at all in
>> git-send-email.txt that the --to-cmd/--cc-cmd commands are handed the
>> patch pathname as an argument, so that's certainly something worth
>> documenting.
>
> The other issue I noted was wondering what "auto-cc" is?
>
> It's only mentioned the once in:
>    --suppress-cc=<category>
>
> Specify an additional category of recipients to suppress the auto-cc of:
>
> Is it a sort of double negative? Certainly I had no idea what an auto-cc was
> ;-)

I presume that "auto-cc" refers to git-send-email's behavior of figuring out whom to cc: automatically (by gleaning email addresses from various sources, such as the patch itself, cc-cmd, etc.). Even just saying "...suppress the automatic cc:'ing..." would be an improvement, though it may deserve its own little paragraph explaining that automatic cc:'ing is occurring and from where the email addresses are gleaned.