Re: Problem with send-email

[Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>]

Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Timur Tabi wrote:
> 
>> Everything works.  However, if I do this:
>>
>> git-send-email --from timur@freescale.com --to  \
>>    --smtp-server remotesmtp.freescale.net patchfile 
>>
> 
> What do you expect when you specify _empty_ To: header?

Sorry, that was a bad cut-and-paste.  I don't know what happened.  That line is supposed to read:

git-send-email --from timur@freescale.com --to timur@tabi.org --smtp-server remotesmtp.freescale.net patchfile

The error message I get is the same:

(mbox) Adding cc: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> from line 'From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>'
(sob) Adding cc: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> from line 'Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
'
5.0.0 <Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>... Unbalanced '<'

I do have some news.  This problem goes away if I don't specify the --smtp-server parameter.

> 
> I use git-send-email from time to time; I always specify From:, 
> either entering it when prompted, or using --from parameter.
> The fact that it didn't fill default value from committer/author
> core.author+core.email is I guess a bug...

Like I said, I think the bug is in the call to readline().  Like I said, I don't know Perl, but from the documentation I have read, I don't think readline() takes two parameters.

     do {
         $_ = $term->readline("Who should the emails appear to be from? ",
             $from);
     } while (!defined $_);

     $from = $_;

$from does contain the correct value when readline() is called.  The problem is that $_ contains nothing, which causes $from to be erased.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale