Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: Cc more people

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 07:05:03 -0700
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:

> From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
> 
> Several of my colleagues (and myself) have expressed surprise and
> annoyance that git-send-email doesn't automatically pick up people who
> are listed in patches as Reported-by: or Reviewed-by: or ... many other
> tags that would seem (to us) to indicate that person might be interested.
> This patch to git-send-email tries to pick up all Foo-by: tags.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Note, this is one of the reasons I still use quilt to send my email.
I've modified my quilt scripts to do what Matthew does here below.

-- Steve


> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
> 
> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> index 2fa7818ca..926815329 100755
> --- a/git-send-email.perl
> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
> @@ -1665,7 +1665,7 @@ foreach my $t (@files) {
>  	# Now parse the message body
>  	while(<$fh>) {
>  		$message .=  $_;
> -		if (/^(Signed-off-by|Cc): (.*)/i) {
> +		if (/^([A-Z-a-z]*-by|Cc): (.*)/i) {
>  			chomp;
>  			my ($what, $c) = ($1, $2);
>  			# strip garbage for the address we'll use: