From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Chiang Subject: Re: [StGit PATCH v2 0/6] add support for git send-email Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:27:31 -0700 Message-ID: <20091203192731.GD23258@ldl.fc.hp.com> References: <20091202003503.7737.51579.stgit@bob.kio> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: catalin.marinas@gmail.com, git To: Karl Wiberg X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 03 20:27:38 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NGHL0-0004oE-2p for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:27:38 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756743AbZLCT10 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:27:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756734AbZLCT10 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:27:26 -0500 Received: from g4t0017.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.20]:17162 "EHLO g4t0017.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756732AbZLCT1Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:27:25 -0500 Received: from g4t0009.houston.hp.com (g4t0009.houston.hp.com [16.234.32.26]) by g4t0017.houston.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3582238310; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 19:27:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ldl (linux.corp.hp.com [15.11.146.101]) by g4t0009.houston.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCE58C119; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 19:27:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (ldl.fc.hp.com [127.0.0.1]) by ldl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9B28CF0017; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:27:31 -0700 (MST) Received: from ldl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ldl.fc.hp.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fWvooDezyWsr; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:27:31 -0700 (MST) Received: by ldl (Postfix, from userid 17609) id A3547CF0007; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:27:31 -0700 (MST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: * Karl Wiberg : > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Alex Chiang wrote: > > The upshot is that in stg mail, --git and --mbox don't interact > > well, and the resulting mbox file will lack the recipients. This > > might be fixed in the future if we teach git send-email how to > > generate mbox files, but then we introduce a versioning problem. > > One wild idea: git send-email's --smtp-server flag will accept the > (full) path of a sendmail program; writing such a program, just > capable enough to receive the outgoing emails and dumping them to a > file, should be easy. Another option would be a program that speaks > just enough SMTP to accept the mails. (Incidentally, these two would > be useful in testing stg mail even without the --git option.) Hm, I think this is getting to be a bit of overkill. I could see adding --mbox support to git send-email as being a better use of time (IMO). > I fully understand if you'd rather get on with scratching your actual > itch, though ... :) > > So let's just accept this wart for now, and say, if you want an mbox > > file generated, don't use --git. That seems reasonable to me. > > Sure. Thanks, /ac