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Re: [StGit PATCH v2 0/6] add support for git send-email

From
Karl Wiberg <kha@treskal.com>
Date
Dec 2, 2009, 06:46 UTC
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On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> wrote:
> I also experimented with adding another test case for --git mode,
> basically duplicating t1900-mail.sh, and then adding the --git
> argument wherever it made sense.
Ah, good.
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> However, that resulted in failure of the last 3 test cases, which is
> due to the fact that we no longer parse To/Cc/Bcc command line args
> in --git mode, and the resulting mbox file was missing the expected
> recipient addresses.
>
> I played around with that for a while, thinking that I could use git
> send-email --dry-run to do something equivalent, but then realized
> that git send-email's run-run mode is definitely not analogous to
> stg mail's --mbox mode.
>
> The upshot is that in stg mail, --git and --mbox don't interact
> well, and the resulting mbox file will lack the recipients. This
> might be fixed in the future if we teach git send-email how to
> generate mbox files, but then we introduce a versioning problem.

One wild idea: git send-email's --smtp-server flag will accept the (full) path of a sendmail program; writing such a program, just capable enough to receive the outgoing emails and dumping them to a file, should be easy. Another option would be a program that speaks just enough SMTP to accept the mails. (Incidentally, these two would be useful in testing stg mail even without the --git option.)

I fully understand if you'd rather get on with scratching your actual itch, though ...

> So let's just accept this wart for now, and say, if you want an mbox
> file generated, don't use --git. That seems reasonable to me.
Sure.
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Message 14 of 19 in “add support for git send-email”
  1. 0/6 add support for git send-emailAlex Chiang, Dec 2, 2009
  2. 1/6 stg mail: Refactor __send_message and friendsAlex Chiang, Dec 2, 2009
  3. Karl WibergDec 2, 2009
  4. Alex ChiangDec 3, 2009
  5. 1/6 stg mail: Refactor __send_message and friendsAlex Chiang, Dec 3, 2009
  6. 2/6 stg mail: reorder __build_[message|cover] parametersAlex Chiang, Dec 2, 2009
  7. 3/6 stg mail: make __send_message do moreAlex Chiang, Dec 2, 2009
  8. Karl WibergDec 2, 2009
  9. Alex ChiangDec 3, 2009
  10. Karl WibergDec 4, 2009
  11. 4/6 stg mail: factor out __update_headerAlex Chiang, Dec 2, 2009
  12. 5/6 stg mail: add basic support for git send-emailAlex Chiang, Dec 2, 2009
  13. 6/6 stg mail: don't parse To/Cc/Bcc in --git modeAlex Chiang, Dec 2, 2009
  14. Karl WibergDec 2, 2009
  15. Alex ChiangDec 3, 2009
  16. Karl WibergDec 2, 2009
  17. Catalin MarinasDec 2, 2009
  18. Catalin MarinasDec 6, 2009
  19. Karl WibergDec 7, 2009

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