From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Vasco Almeida <vascomalmeida@sapo.pt>
Subject: [RFC] send-email: avoid duplicate In-Reply-To and References headers
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 00:34:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170212003432.GA19519@starla> (raw)
When parsing an mbox, it is possible to get existing In-Reply-To
and References headers blindly appended into the headers of
message we generate. This is probably the wrong thing to do
and we should prioritize what was given in the command-line,
cover letter, and previously-sent messages.
One example I've noticed in the wild was:
https://public-inbox.org/git/20161111124541.8216-17-vascomalmeida@sapo.pt/raw
---
I'm not completely sure this is what Vasco was doing in that
message, so it's an RFC for now...
git-send-email.perl | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 068d60b3e6..5ab3d8585c 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -1543,7 +1543,13 @@ foreach my $t (@files) {
elsif (!/^Date:\s/i && /^[-A-Za-z]+:\s+\S/) {
push @xh, $_;
}
-
+ elsif (/^(?:References|In-Reply-To):/i) {
+ if (defined $initial_reply_to || $thread) {
+ warn
+"Ignoring $_ header in mbox body since it conflicts with\n
+--in-reply-to and --thread switches\n"
+ }
+ }
} else {
# In the traditional
# "send lots of email" format,
--
EW
next reply other threads:[~2017-02-12 0:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-12 0:34 Eric Wong [this message]
2017-02-12 1:41 ` [RFC] send-email: avoid duplicate In-Reply-To and References headers Junio C Hamano
2017-02-12 2:12 ` Eric Wong
2017-02-12 2:51 ` Junio C Hamano
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