cover letter and cc list

cover letter and cc list

[Olaf Hering]

What does it take to send the cover letter to all people which are
listed in the Cc: list of the following patches? Each patch has a
different Cc: list. The "git send-email --help" command suggests that
this cmdline should do it. But the cover letter goes just to the address
listed in --to=:

env TMPDIR=/dev/shm LC_ALL=C git send-email -M --stat --annotate \
        --cover-letter --cc-cover --to=$address \
        $base..$head

Thanks,

Olaf

Re: cover letter and cc list

[Junio C Hamano]

Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> writes:

> What does it take to send the cover letter to all people which are
> listed in the Cc: list of the following patches? Each patch has a
> different Cc: list. The "git send-email --help" command suggests that
> this cmdline should do it. But the cover letter goes just to the address
> listed in --to=:
>
> env TMPDIR=/dev/shm LC_ALL=C git send-email -M --stat --annotate \
>         --cover-letter --cc-cover --to=$address \
>         $base..$head

First step is not to drive format-patch from within send-email I
would think.  Instead prepare them in files in a directory (with
format-patch -o $dir).  You can edit Cc: header in 0000-*.patch
message while you proof-read what you are going to send out.

Re: cover letter and cc list

[Olaf Hering]

On Fri, Mar 20, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> writes:
> 
> > What does it take to send the cover letter to all people which are
> > listed in the Cc: list of the following patches? Each patch has a
> > different Cc: list. The "git send-email --help" command suggests that
> > this cmdline should do it. But the cover letter goes just to the address
> > listed in --to=:
> >
> > env TMPDIR=/dev/shm LC_ALL=C git send-email -M --stat --annotate \
> >         --cover-letter --cc-cover --to=$address \
> >         $base..$head
> 
> First step is not to drive format-patch from within send-email I
> would think.  Instead prepare them in files in a directory (with
> format-patch -o $dir).  You can edit Cc: header in 0000-*.patch
> message while you proof-read what you are going to send out.

Thanks. Then I misinterpreted what --cc-cover actually means. All Cc:
lines have to be present in the cover letter already. Would be nice if
git would run a command like this to put the list into the coverletter:

 # git log --format=%b $base..$head | grep -iw ^cc: | sort -u

In the meantime I will remember to do that step manually.

Olaf

Re: cover letter and cc list

[Vineet Gupta]

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On Monday 23 March 2015 01:48 PM, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>>> Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> writes:
>>> 
>>>>> What does it take to send the cover letter to all people which are 
>>>>> listed in the Cc: list of the following patches? Each patch has a 
>>>>> different Cc: list. The "git send-email --help" command suggests
>>>>> that this cmdline should do it. But the cover letter goes just to the
>>>>> address listed in --to=:
>>>>> 
>>>>> env TMPDIR=/dev/shm LC_ALL=C git send-email -M --stat --annotate \ 
>>>>> --cover-letter --cc-cover --to=$address \ $base..$head
>>> 
>>> First step is not to drive format-patch from within send-email I would
>>> think.  Instead prepare them in files in a directory (with format-patch
>>> -o $dir).  You can edit Cc: header in 0000-*.patch message while you
>>> proof-read what you are going to send out.
> Thanks. Then I misinterpreted what --cc-cover actually means. All Cc: lines
> have to be present in the cover letter already. Would be nice if git would
> run a command like this to put the list into the coverletter:
> 
> # git log --format=%b $base..$head | grep -iw ^cc: | sort -u
> 
> In the meantime I will remember to do that step manually.
> 
> Olaf

I have the exact same requirement, to create a union of CC in patches for
cover-letter. That way sending a series to different people gives them the right
context with cover-letter and individual patch.

Now man git send-email mentions --[no-]cc-cover. I quote

"emails found in Cc: headers in the first patch of the series (typically the
cover letter) are added to the cc list for each email set..."

I certainly want the reverse, but the question is how does one get about getting
an address in cover letter in first place.

Thx,
- -Vineet

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