Automatically filling in git send-email arguments based on an existing e-mail
Hi folks, sometimes when I send a patch, I want to reply it to an existing e-mail, using pretty much the same recipient list. Currently, I have to: - copy-paste the message id for --in-reply-to header - copy one address for --to - copy the other addresses for the --cc's Since I can't just chuck a list of addresses into --cc and I need to quote every one because of the and spaces in there, this feels like it's more tedious than needed. It seems like there should be a weay to just copy paste the headers from the original e-mail into the stdin of git send-email or a wrapper script and let it sort things out from there. Is there any interest in something like this? Does anyone else perhaps already have such a script lying around? (After writing this mail, I just noticed [PATCH] git-send-email: two new options: to-cover, cc-cover, which could help a bit to simplify things, but not quite as far as I'm proposing here...) Gr. Matthijs signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Automatically filling in git send-email arguments based on an existing e-mail
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 10:25:25AM +0200, Matthijs Kooijman wrote: sometimes when I send a patch, I want to reply it to an existing e-mail, using pretty much the same recipient list. Currently, I have to: - copy-paste the message id for --in-reply-to header - copy one address for --to - copy the other addresses for the --cc's Since I can't just chuck a list of addresses into --cc and I need to quote every one because of the and spaces in there, this feels like it's more tedious than needed. It seems like there should be a weay to just copy paste the headers from the original e-mail into the stdin of git send-email or a wrapper script and let it sort things out from there. Is there any interest in something like this? Does anyone else perhaps already have such a script lying around? I have been working on this for a while, but haven't yet got anything into a suitable state for submission (and haven't made progress on it for a while). My WIP is at: https://github.com/johnkeeping/git/tree/format-patch-msgstore The idea is to introduce a new helper protocol so that you can implement various ways of finding a message given a message-id; I've implemented one that finds the message from gmane. What's there works in format-patch but not with send-email, which implements message IDs itself rather than forwarding the arguments to format-patch and I haven't had time to investigate changing send-email to work with these patches. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
