From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:35:59 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] git-send-email.perl: support executable scripts for recipient options Message-ID: In-Reply-To: "D. Ben Knoble" writes: >> What’s the difference between this and `--cc-cmd` and similar? I >> wouldn’t know, I don’t use these `--*cmd` options. > > The only difference I can think of is that we have --cc-cmd, --to-cmd, > but not --bcc-cmd. > > (I use --cc-cmd via config set to git-contacts for git.git so that > patches mostly CC the right folks, but I typically have to manually > track and add discussion participants, which is a bit of a pain.) If we were inventing git-send-email today without existing users at all, we might have appreciated the simplicity of "it is easy to tell if the argument to --cc and other options is a name of an executable file on disk, so do the obvious thing depending", but this came way too late, I would have to say.