From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:36:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] send-email: add ability to send a copy of sent emails to an IMAP folder
Message-ID: <xmqqo6tctez2.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <PN3PR01MB95973B291F0A52A19DA8BD49B85CA@PN3PR01MB9597.INDPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com> writes:

> Also, as far as B2 is concerned, users can already do something like:
>
> git format-patch -2 HEAD --to=someone@example.com --stdout | git imap-send

If the above command line is sufficient for users, "git send-email"
does not need its feature to drive format-patch and do

    git format-patch -o outgo/. -2 HEAD &&
    git send-email --to=someone@example.com ./outgo/*.patch

I used to think that way and I was naive ;-) But such an argument
completely misses the point of various send-email options that allow
the user to tweak CC: list programatically, compose the cover
letter, etc., doesn't it?