Re: [PATCH 2/2] send-email: add series-cc-cmd option

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 00:03 +0100, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 03:21 +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> >> Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >> > cc-cmd is only per-file, and many times receipients get lost without
> >> > seing the full patch series.
> >>
> >> s/seing/seeing
> >>
> >> > [...]
> >>
> >> Looks good otherwise.
> >
> > s/receipients/recipients/ too
> >
> > Practically this is ok but I think it's unnecessary.
> >
> > Output from git format-patch is always in a single
> > directory.
> 
> A temporary directory.
> 
> > My work flow is to use a script for --to and --cc
> > lines that can be set to emit the same addresses for
> > all files in a patch series or generate different
> > addresses per patch file.
> 
> For --to-cmd and --cc-cmd? So basically you check the dirname of the
> argument passed?

yes. basename and dirname

> While that works, it means you have to run the same command multiple
> times, one for each mail.

Shrug.  it's not a generally significant cost.
The script could also output the addresses to yet another file.

> If the command is using something expensive such as 'git blame' and
> you have many patches, this is particularly bad. Also, it's not
> elegant :)

Elegant is a beholder viewpoint.

cheers, Joe