Re: cover letter and cc list

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 20, 2015, 18:08 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqpp83ee2z.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150320173504.GA6162@aepfle.de>

Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> writes:

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> What does it take to send the cover letter to all people which are
> listed in the Cc: list of the following patches? Each patch has a
> different Cc: list. The "git send-email --help" command suggests that
> this cmdline should do it. But the cover letter goes just to the address
> listed in --to=:
>
> env TMPDIR=/dev/shm LC_ALL=C git send-email -M --stat --annotate \
>         --cover-letter --cc-cover --to=$address \
>         $base..$head

First step is not to drive format-patch from within send-email I would think. Instead prepare them in files in a directory (with format-patch -o $dir). You can edit Cc: header in 0000-*.patch message while you proof-read what you are going to send out.