From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22D8E1F42D for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 07:55:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751531AbeCWHze (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Mar 2018 03:55:34 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0226.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.226]:42170 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751395AbeCWHze (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Mar 2018 03:55:34 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 334 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 03:55:34 EDT Received: from smtprelay.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by smtpgrave06.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB67800491F for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 07:50:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8489837F243; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 07:49:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: rule08_3a01d3567765c X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2456 Received: from XPS-9350 (unknown [47.151.150.235]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf04.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 07:49:58 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1521791397.24655.7.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: git send-email and sending the cover-letter to all cc addresses found in a patch series From: Joe Perches To: Dominik Brodowski , gitster@pobox.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Linux Kernel Mailing List , git@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:49:57 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20180323073858.GA12077@light.dominikbrodowski.net> References: <20180322090059.19361-1-linux@dominikbrodowski.net> <20180322090059.19361-24-linux@dominikbrodowski.net> <20180322172959.GX4043@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20180323073858.GA12077@light.dominikbrodowski.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.26.1-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 08:38 +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:44:54AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > > > But why !? Either Cc me on more of the series such that the whole makes > > > sense, or better yet, write a proper Changelog. > > > > This is a common issue. We should encourage people to always send at > > least the cover-page to everybody who gets cc'd, even if they don't > > get the whole series. > > Will try to do that in future. Does git send-email have such an option? Or > do I have to specify all cc addresses in the cover letter manually? I found > some reference to an unresolved discussion on git@ of that topic in 2016, so > I might not be the only one who could make use of that feature... The main problem might be the quantity of recipients. Many spam filters look at how many recipients on an email to eliminate likely spam. kernel.org mailing lists have a maximum email header size. Too many recipients aren't delivered to the lists. Using BCC could work, but replies then don't go to all of the recipients. Generally, I send only to listed the 0/n patch only to lists and individual patches to maintainers.