Re: [BUG] suppress-cc does not support multiple keywords
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Aug 13, 2025, 14:33 UTC
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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
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> ... If there is any "bug", it's that the documentation does state > that you can specify --suppress-cc multiple times (even though you > obviously can). > > [*]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email#Documentation/git-send-email.txt---suppress-cccategory
"does state"? or "does not state" or "does state that you cannot"?
I guess you meant the second one; some other options like --to explicitly say "multiple times", but many others, this one among them, does not.
The existing text
--suppress-cc=<category>::
Specify an additional category of recipients to suppress the
auto-cc of:does make it clear that <category> given to a single instance of this option is a single category ("AN additional category").
Perhaps a minimum fix would be something like this?
Documentation/git-send-email.adoc | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git c/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc w/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc index 5335502d68..b959e39257 100644 --- c/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc +++ w/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc @@ -403,7 +403,9 @@ Automating - `all` will suppress all auto cc values. -- + -Default is the value of `sendemail.suppressCc` configuration value; if +Can be given more than once to suppress multiple categories. +Default is the value of `sendemail.suppressCc` configuration +variable (which can be given multiple times, one category at a time); if that is unspecified, default to `self` if `--suppress-from` is specified, as well as `body` if `--no-signed-off-cc` is specified.