From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Teemu Likonen Subject: Re: Changing the defaults for send-email / suppress-cc ? Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:49:00 +0200 Message-ID: <87ljrphjxv.fsf@iki.fi> References: <7d1d9c250902281129t1ea0d9d0k796d97bdd0af046d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Paul Gortmaker X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Mar 01 06:50:41 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LdeZS-0000ty-RW for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:50:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751634AbZCAFtL (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Mar 2009 00:49:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751280AbZCAFtI (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Mar 2009 00:49:08 -0500 Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13]:46013 "EHLO jenni2.inet.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751129AbZCAFtI (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Mar 2009 00:49:08 -0500 Received: from mithlond.arda.local (80.220.180.181) by jenni2.inet.fi (8.5.014) id 48FC5A8805AA5A79; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 07:49:01 +0200 Received: from dtw by mithlond.arda.local with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LdeXs-0000zp-HF; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:49:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: <7d1d9c250902281129t1ea0d9d0k796d97bdd0af046d@mail.gmail.com> (Paul Gortmaker's message of "Sat\, 28 Feb 2009 14\:29\:39 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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.