Re: email address handling

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 2, 2008, 11:03 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0808021300420.9611@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v4p64sa07.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> >> I very very frequently copy and paste name+email address out of git 
> >> output and into an MUA.  Have done it thousands and thousands of times, 
> >> and it has always worked.  I'm sure that many others do the same thing.
> 
> >
> > $ git log --pretty=email
> >
> > after this patch:
> 
> You are quoting only Author: and not Signed-off-by: and Cc: that are used
> for e-mail purposes.

You might have realized that this was not a proper patch with a commit message and a SOB?

As for Cc: I agree. But not for S-O-B: this is not an email header. And I was very specific in only changing the behavior for "pretty=email".

At least _I_ was surprised that pretty=email did not behave as if it was outputting email headers.

I agree with Linus for pretty=non-email, but not at all for pretty=email.

> I already said send-email is the right place to do this kind of thing, 
> didn't I?

For the given scenario send-email is completely irrelevant.

Ciao, Dscho