From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 21:46:10 GMT Subject: Re: Is there some way to suppress Cc email only to stable? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20150209214312.GC4166@linux.vnet.ibm.com> "Paul E. McKenney" writes: >> > 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?