From: Steven Drake Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:33:38 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add 'git format-patch --to=' option and 'format.to' configuration variable. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vhbpgfrqj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I tried to ask you (apparently in a garbled grammar, sorry) what > your workflow of sending the format-patch output to the outside world is. $ ./git-format-patch --stdout master~5..master~1 >>~/mail/postponed-msgs $ alpine -I cp Only problem with doing that is that alpine changes the Date: and Message-Id: header (the later being a pain if I used --threaded). I don't know about other MUA (or how Daniel or Miklos work) but someone could use a command like: $ git-format-patch --stdout master~5..master~1 | sendmail -bm -t But in all honesty I don't think it matters whether the headers are set by format-patch or send-email and I would understand if you wanted to deprecate '--cc' from format-patch and 'format.cc' (maybe keep it for backwards compat). -- Steven