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Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: Refuse to send cover-letter template subject
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:25:18 +0200
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Junio C Hamano, 09.06.2009:
> Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
> 
> > Every so often, someone sends out an unedited cover-letter template.
> > Add a simple check to send-email that refuses to send if the subject
> > contains "*** SUBJECT HERE ***", with an option --force to override.
> 
> Good ;-).  More valuable to detect would be an empty "blurb" section
> (i.e. not "unedited *** BLURB HERE ***" string, but literally, there is
> nothing said in the message other than the shortstat).

My mail "[PATCH 0/6] fixes for git-send-email" had an empty blurb
section because it didn't need any additional description.
I wouldn't want git to refuse sending it.