Re: [TopGit PATCH] tg-create.sh: Support for multiple {to,cc,bcc} options

["Bert Wesarg" <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>]

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 03:37, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
>
>>> +    prefix="$(echo "$2" | sed -e 's/\//\\\\\//g')"
>>
>> Maybe use s### ? ;-)
>
> Personally I like '|' instead.  It's much less visually distracting than #.
  ^^^^^^^^^^ says it all ;-)
>
>>> +
>>> +    git config --get-all topgit.$1 2>/dev/null |
>>> +            sed -e "s/^/$prefix /g"
>>> +}
>>
>> Won't this return an error code and terminate the script in case no
>> option is defined?
I tested it with none defined options: no error, no distracting empty
lines, no error messages. so it worked here.

>>> -    ! header="$(git config topgit.to)" || echo "To: $header"
>>> -    ! header="$(git config topgit.cc)" || echo "Cc: $header"
>>> -    ! header="$(git config topgit.bcc)" || echo "Bcc: $header"
>>> +    get_multi_config to  "To:"
>>> +    get_multi_config cc  "Cc:"
>>> +    get_multi_config bcc "Bcc:"
>>>      ! subject_prefix="$(git config topgit.subjectprefix)" || subject_prefix="$subject_prefix "
>>>      echo "Subject: [${subject_prefix}PATCH] $name"
>>>      echo
>>
>> One trouble here is that I've seen mailers mess up when there is
>> multiple occurences of these headers, so it would be probably safer to
>> concatenate them all to single line, comma-separated.
>
> It is not just "I've seen mailers"; RFC2822 wants you to have at most one
> (see the table on Page 20).
But do we generate a valid mail with tg patch, or just a patch file
with some special looking lines? Anyway, I thought about the comma
separated solution too, but git send-mail handles these multi lines
well. So I take the easy road.

Bert