Re: [PATCH] send-email: don't cc *-by lines with '-' prefix

> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> writes:
> 
> > My preference would be for correctness.
> > I presume something like this isn't too onerous.
> 
> I am guessing that /^---/ is to stop at the three-dash line *OR*
> after the initial handful of lines of the first diff header (as the
> last resort) and that is why it is not looking for /^---$/.

> If that is the case, I think it makes a lot of sense.  It is a
> general improvement not tied to the case that triggered this thread.
> 
> Independently, I think it makes sense to do something like
> 
> 	/^([a-z][a-z-]*-by|Cc): (.*)/i
> 
> to tighten the match to exclude a non-trailer; that would have been
> sufficient for the original case that triggered this thread.