Re: [PATCH 2/3] git send-email: do not ask questions when --compose is used.

[Ian Hilt <ian.hilt@gmx.com>]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 12:04:39PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> I didn't do it for a very good reason: the To field is tricker to parse
> because very fast it's multiline, and must be split along the ',' when
> parsed back and so on.

Right.  So my patch is broken in that it doesn't parse the addresses
correctly.  This _should_ be easy to fix.  I knew my patch sucked, but I
wanted to get the idea out there.  For me, I don't like specifying all
that information on the command-line.  It would be nice to be able to
edit the To and Cc fields in the editor.

> And even moreuseful than the To is the Cc list that git-send-email
> bloats to death and that I would like to reduce very often.

You mean git-send-email adds too many addresses to the Cc list, or the
code for those fields is already bloated to death?

> But sadly that needs an expertise of perl I absolutely don't have. We
> probably even want to depend on some MIME perl library that knows about
> those kind of issues and do it for us well.

I'm confused here.  Why would a MIME library help?

> But yeah, I knew I left out those, and this was the reason.

Anyway, do you, or does anyone else, think it's even worth coding the
possibility for the user to edit the To and Cc fields?


	Ian