Re: Formatting problem send_mail in version 2.10.0

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

On 10/11/2016 02:39 AM, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
>> [+cc authors of b1c8a11, which regressed this case; I'll quote liberally
>>      to give context]
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 05:48:56PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>>
>>> I can't reproduce the problem with this simple setup:
>>>
>>> 	git init
>>> 	echo content >file && git add file
>>> 	git commit -F- <<-\EOF
>>> 	the subject
>>>
>>> 	the body
>>>
>>> 	Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.8+]
>
> Is this RFC2822 compliant (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822)? Not an
> expert of the norm, but my understanding is that you're allowed to use
> either "Name <addr@domain.com>" (name-addr) or addr@domain.com
> (addr-spec), and that comments are allowed within parenthesis like
> "Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> (4.8+)".
>
> What is this [4.8+] supposed to mean?
>
> The guilty function is parse_mailboxes in perl/Git.pm. It should be
> rather easy to modify it but I need to understand the spec before I can
> try to implement anything.

That added information at the end is intended to be passed on to the stable 
group. In this case, the patch needs to be applied to kernel versions 4.8 and later.

Placing the info inside parentheses causes it to be dropped from the outgoing 
mail as follows:

(body) Adding cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> (4.8+) from line 'Cc: Stable 
<stable@vger.kernel.org> (4.8+)'
--snip--
Cc:     Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,

Larry