Re: [BUG] suppress-cc does not support multiple keywords

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Aug 13, 2025, 06:34 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cTvCLU3u5y23HSrbxovs8cjcJdOUj0e1G9Rg4F1AP0jAg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAOZdJXWaC2U_YrwuDcA0x3iUeF_uJ658a93cTfdLftEXYRB52Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM Timur Tabi <timur@kernel.org> wrote:

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> I hope this isn't just some user error on my part, but whenever I use
> the --suppress-cc option, and I specify more than one keyword (e.g.
> --suppress-cc=author,self ), git complains that it doesn't recognize
> the keyword.  It seems that it treats all of the comma-separated
> keywords as one big keyword with commas in it.

It's probably a case of user error. As far as I can see, the documentation[*] does not in any way suggest that --suppress-cc accepts a comma-separated list of categories to suppress.

> I was able to work around the problem by specifying --suppress-cc
> multiple times, once for each keyword.

Indeed, consulting the source code, this behavior appears to be intentional. If there is any "bug", it's that the documentation does state that you can specify --suppress-cc multiple times (even though you obviously can).

[*]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email#Documentation/git-send-email.txt---suppress-cccategory