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[PATCH] send-email: ask confirmation if given encoding name is very short

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 16, 2015, 22:34 UTC
Message-ID
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In-Reply-To
<20150206193349.GB4220@peff.net>

Sometimes people respond "y<ENTER>" (or "yes<ENTER>") when asked this question:

    Which 8bit encoding should I declare [UTF-8]?

We already have a mechanism to avoid accepting a mistyped e-mail address (we ask to confirm when the given address lacks "@" in it); reuse it to trigger the same confirmation when given a very short answer. As a typical charset name is probably at least 4 chars or longer (e.g. "UTF8" spelled without the dash, or "Big5"), this would prevent such a mistake.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 * Will mark to be merged to 'next'.
 git-send-email.perl | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index fdb0029..eb32371 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -733,6 +733,7 @@ sub file_declares_8bit_cte {
 		print "    $f\n";
 	}
 	$auto_8bit_encoding = ask("Which 8bit encoding should I declare [UTF-8]? ",
+				  valid_re => qr/.{4}/, confirm_only => 1,
 				  default => "UTF-8");
 }
 
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