Re: problem when using --cc-cmd

[Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 16:52 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Thiago Farina wrote:
>> > when I run:
>> > $ git send-email --to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --cc-cmd
>> > scripts/get_maintainer.pl foo
>> > I'm getting some lines like:
>> > Use of uninitialized value $cc in string eq at
>> > /home/tfarina/libexec/git-core/git-send-email line 964.
>> Yes, sounds like a bug.  Cc-ing some send-email people for tips.
>
> I haven't seen this.
>
> What versions of ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl and git are
> you using?
>

$ scripts/get_maintainer.pl --version
scripts/get_maintainer.pl 0.26

$ git version
git version 1.7.5.rc2.5.g60e19

>> On the other hand, using --cc-cmd=scripts/get_maintainer.pl does not
>> sound like a great idea to me.  On one hand the output of
>> get_maintainer.pl is not an unadorned address per line like --cc-cmd
>> expects.  On the other hand, at least some versions of
>> get_maintainer.pl returned more addresses than are likely to be
>> interested people (by using --git by default).
>>
>> I think get_maintainer.pl is meant to be a starting point for tracking
>> down who might be interested in a patch and should be followed by
>> careful investigation.  (That means making sure that there is a
>> reasonable number of people and the reasons given by --roles ouput
>> make sense, and maybe even glancing at some messages by them from the
>> relevant mailing list to make sure the script has not gone haywire.)
>
> Jonathan is basically correct in the what he writes above.
>
> I also think git history isn't a very good mechanism to
> rely on for determining MAINTAINERS, it should only be a
> fallback to determine who should receive a copy of a patch.
>
> That said, I use scripts/get_maintainer.pl to generate
> to's and cc's.  I do not use --git or --git-fallback
> and rely only on the MAINTAINERS file pattern matching.
>
> Here are the settings I use:
>
Cool, thanks for sharing it. I'll add that to my config file.

> $ cat ~/.gitconfig
> [sendemail]
>        chainreplyto = false
>        thread = false
>        suppresscc = self
>        tocmd = ~/bin/to.sh
>        cccmd = ~/bin/cc.sh
>
> $ cat ~/bin/to.sh
> #!/bin/bash
>
> opts="--nogit --nogit-fallback --norolestats --pattern-depth=1"
>
> if [[ $(basename $1) =~ ^0000- ]] ; then
>    ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nom $opts $(dirname $1)/*
> else
>    maint=$(./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nol $opts $1)
>
>    if [ "$maint" == "" ] ; then
>        echo "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org"
>    else
>        echo "$maint"
>    fi
> fi
>
> $ cat ~/bin/cc.sh
> #!/bin/bash
>
> opts="--nogit --nogit-fallback --norolestats"
>
> if [[ $(basename $1) =~ ^0000- ]] ; then
>    ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nom $opts $(dirname $1)/*
> else
>    ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl $opts $1
> fi
>
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