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

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 06:21:42AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > But IMO this patch is really lacking a few things before being ready:
> >
> > 1. You have no tests for this. See t/t9001-send-email.sh for examples,
> > ...
> > 2. Just a few lines down from your quoted hunk we have this:
> > ... code about $supress_cc{<token>} ...
> >    Your change should at least describe why those aren't being updated,
> >    but probably we should add some other command-line option for
> >    ignoring these wildcards, e.g. --[no-]wildcard-by-cc=reviewed
> >    --[no-]wildcard-by-cc=seen etc, and we can make --[no-]signed-off-by
> >    a historical alias for --[no-]wildcard-by-cc=signed-off.
> > 3. Ditto all the documentation in "man git-send-email" about
> > ...
> 
> Thanks, I agree that 2. (the lack of suppression) is a showstopper.

I agree with that (and the lack of tests, obviously)

> I'd further say that these new CC-sources should be disabled by
> default and made opt-in to avoid surprising existing users.

But I disagree with this.  The current behaviour is surprising to
existing users, to the point where people are writing their own scripts
to replace git send-email (which seems crazy to me).

> One thing we also need to be very careful about is that some of the
> fields may not even have an e-mail address.  We can expect that
> S-o-b and Cc would be of form "human readable name <email@addre.ss>"
> by their nature, but it is perfectly fine to write only human
> readable name without address on random lines like "suggeted-by" and
> "helped-by".  There needs a way for the end-user to avoid using data
> found on such lines as if they are valid e-mail addresses.

I also agree with this.  I'll add some test-cases and make sure we only
add these if they're valid email addresses.