From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Ravnborg Subject: git send-email woes Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:43:16 +0200 Message-ID: <20060924224316.GA28051@uranus.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 25 00:38:10 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GRcbt-0001jH-VL for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:38:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751356AbWIXWiC (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:38:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751380AbWIXWiC (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:38:02 -0400 Received: from pasmtpa.tele.dk ([80.160.77.114]:58244 "EHLO pasmtpA.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751356AbWIXWiA (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:38:00 -0400 Received: from ravnborg.org (0x535d98d8.vgnxx8.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [83.93.152.216]) by pasmtpA.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC388000A7 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:38:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by ravnborg.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id DF06E580D2; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:43:16 +0200 (CEST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I stumbled on two issues with git-send-email today. First of I forgot to tell where to find the patch files to send. But git-send-email only complained _after_ I had given all the information manually. It would have been niver to check that all mandatory arguments was present before being interactive. The second issue are best explained quoting a mail from Matti Arnio: > > The GIT is at times producing emails that are not > > utterly strictly speaking kosher RFC-(2)822 format. > > > > It might be a surprise to you that unquoted dots in > > people's names cause syntax scanner indigestion, > > because said character has very special meaning in > > RFC-822 syntax. All would be fine if > > Example J.P. Example > > had couple quotes: > > "Example J.P. Example" What I could see was that git-send-email takes mail address verbatim from "Signed-off-by:" lines and use it. Would it be possible to always quote it except when quoted or to do a more intelligent RFC2822 check? That would keep suprises lower. I'm not good a perlish so I have not attempted fixing it myself... Sam