Re: git send-email woes

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 12:58:21PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> writes:
> 
> > The patches in quistion did not have a "Signed-off-by: tag so
> > that mail address has been from the author instead.
> > And this mail address was still invalid as per RFC2822.
> 
> I do not think it takes Signed-off-by: as author in any case
> (and I do not think it should -- if it did so it is a bug).
> 
> Maybe something like this?
> 
> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> index 746c525..b4a34f4 100755
> --- a/git-send-email.perl
> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
> @@ -431,6 +431,11 @@ sub send_message
>  	    $gitversion =~ s/^.* //;
>  	}
>  
> +	my ($author_name) = ($from =~ /^(.*?)\s+</);
> +	if ($author_name =~ /\./ && $author_name !~ /^".*"$/) {
> +		my ($name, $addr) = ($from =~ /^(.*?)(\s+<.*)/);
> +		$from = "\"$name\"$addr";
> +	}
>  	my $header = "From: $from
>  To: $to
>  Cc: $cc
> 
I would assume we had to do the same for all mail addresses?
In this case also for $to and $cc and $reply_to.

	Sam