Re: git send-email Cc with cruft not working as expected

[Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr>]

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> +cc people from that thread
>
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I recently found an issue with git-send-email where it does not
>>>> properly remove the cruft of an email address when sending using a Cc:
>>>> line.
>>>>
>>>> The specific example is with a commit containing the following Cc line,
>>>>
>>>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.10+
>>>
>>> Please see and discuss at
>>> https://public-inbox.org/git/20170216174924.GB2625@localhost/
>>
>> I read that thread, and it addressed the problem of
>>
>> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.10+
>>
>> but did not fix this case without the <> around the email address.

Indeed. It detects garbage as "everything after >".

I feel really sorry that we need so many iterations to get back to a
correct behavior :-(.

>> Additionally I just discovered that the behavior here changes pretty
>> drastically if you have Email::Validate installed, now it splits the
>> address into multiple things:

(I'm assuming you mean Email::Address, there's also Email::Valid but I
don't think it would modify the behavior)

Hmm, I think we reached the point where we should just stop using
Email::Address.

Patch series follows and should address both points.

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Matthieu Moy
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