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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] git-send-email: Add a --suppress-all option
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:22:51 -0400
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 09:40:55AM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Felipe Balbi wrote:
>> From: Felipe Balbi <felipe.lima@indt.org.br>
>> This patch adds a --suppress-all option to avoid sending emails
>> to everybody but the ones listed by --to option.
>
> To my minds eye, --suppress-all is equivalent to --dry-run. Could you
> rename it to "--cc-nobody" or some such?
>
> On a side-note, I've never really understood why git-send-email *by 
> default*
> sends to a bazillion people. Does anybody ever use it without suppressing
> most of the CC targets?

Yes.  I never suppress the cc's.  The cc-everyone thing is standard on
the kernel mailing lists.

The one exception is if I'm just sending the series to myself as a test.

--b.