Re: [Query] Override sendemail.tocmd

[Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>]

On 10-05-17, 12:18, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a use case and wanted help from you guys..
> >
> > I have set the sendemail.tocmd option in my kernel's .git/config
> > file and that works very well. But sometimes I want to avoid that
> > (for example sending the patch to someone without the list and
> > maintainers).
> >
> > The suppress-cc=all option works quite well to avoid almost
> > everything (including running --cc-cmd), but it doesn't suppress
> > --to-cmd.
> >
> > Are there any specific reasons why it is being done that way?
> >
> > Currently I need to go edit my .git/config file and remove tocmd
> > before sending any such patches and it sucks :)
> 
> Does something like this work:
> 
>     git -c sendemail.tocmd=/bin/false send-email ...
> 
> ?

That failed. I tried with 2.12 version first and then on the next branch with
version: 2.13.0.303.g4ebf3021692d

$ git -c sendemail.tocmd=/bin/false send-email --to vingu 0001-abc.patch
0001-abc.patch
(mbox) Adding cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> from line 'From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>'
(body) Adding cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> from line 'Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>'
(to-cmd) failed to close pipe to '/bin/false' at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-send-email line 1687.

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viresh