Re: Changing the defaults for send-email / suppress-cc ?

[Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>]

On 2009-02-28 14:29 (-0500), Paul Gortmaker wrote:

> I've been involved in helping people who are new git users, and the
> one thing that seems to violate the principle of least surprise for
> them is the default setting for the sendemail.suppresscc -- in that
> the new users don't expect the additional CC lines to be automatically
> added based on what is present in the content of the mbox
> (format-patch output).

> In light of this, I've simply advised new users to run something like:
>
> git config --global sendemail.suppresscc all
>
> ...just so that they won't accidentally do what I've described in the
> above.

Agreed. In the past I have sent a couple of test patches to wrong places
because of these automatic CCs. I think that send-email or any e-mail
client should only send mail for addresses which user has explicitly
selected or otherwise confirmed.

With a time machine I would make the opposite option for send-email:
something like sendemail.autocc and --autocc=. Then user would configure
different recipient categories who she wants to send automatic CCs. It's
easier to think this way. But we don't have a time machine so at least
some kind confirm message would be nice.