From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 21:36:09 GMT
Subject: Re: git format-patch --in-reply-to allows header injection. Intended?
Message-ID: <xmqqppfbqd9x.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <5408D7ED.9010203@nh2.me>

Niklas Hambüchen <mail@nh2.me> writes:

> For example, if you pass "--in-reply-to=<msgid>\nTo: <other@example.com"
> (notice lack of trailing `>`), then the generated email will actually
> contain a
>   To: <other@example.com>
> header.

While I do not think of a reason to specify such a string to the
in-reply-to option (I'd rather edit the output in the editor if I
wanted to do anything fancy [*1*]), I do not think there is a reason
why you want to add a code to forbid such use, either.


[Footnote]

*1* For that matter, --in-reply-to option itself is superfluous.