Re: [PATCH] send-email: allow use of basic email list in --cc --to and --bcc

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Jun 18, 2013, 15:05 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqehbzpihh.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <7vip1b8nut.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Doesn't
>
> 	git send-email --to='Foo <foo@example.com>' --to='bar@example.com'
>
> work?  If it does, I do not see much point of this change.  If you
> are starting from two pieces of information, why combine it into
> one, only have the program to split it again, risking to be bitten
> by bugs, and changing the code to do so, risking to add new bugs?

The obvious use-case is to copy-paste a list of addresses from an email. Currently, the Cc: list of the email I'm sending looks like

Cc: Jorge-Juan.Garcia-Garcia@ensimag.imag.fr,  git@vger.kernel.org,  Mathieu Lienard--Mayor <Mathieu.Lienard--Mayor@ensimag.imag.fr>

If I were to use "git send-email" on it, I'd have to cut the list myself.

This could be mentionned in the commit message.

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/