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Re: Is there some way to suppress Cc email only to stable?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 9, 2015, 21:46 UTC
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"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
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>> > Hence the desire to have a Cc that doesn't actually send any email,
>> > but that is visible in mainline for the benefit of the scripts that
>> > handle the stable workflow.
>> 
>> So a configuration variable that you can set once and forget, e.g.
>> 
>>     [sendemail]
>> 	blacklistedRecipients = stable@vger.kernel.org
>> 
>> would not cut it, as you would _later_ want to send the e-mail once
>> the commit hits the mainline.  Am I reading you correctly?
>
> This would actually work for me.  Once the patch is accepted into
> mainline, I am done with it.  So I should -never- send email to
> stable@vger.kernel.org, unless I am doing so manually, for example because
> I forgot to add the stable tag to a given commit.  But in that case,
> I would just use mutt to forward the patch to stable@vger.kernel.org,
> and git would not be involved.
OK, thanks, we have a workable design to let us move forward, then.
Gits, any takers?
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