Re: [StGit PATCH v2 0/6] add support for git send-email

[Karl Wiberg <kha@treskal.com>]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> wrote:

> I also experimented with adding another test case for --git mode,
> basically duplicating t1900-mail.sh, and then adding the --git
> argument wherever it made sense.

Ah, good.

> However, that resulted in failure of the last 3 test cases, which is
> due to the fact that we no longer parse To/Cc/Bcc command line args
> in --git mode, and the resulting mbox file was missing the expected
> recipient addresses.
>
> I played around with that for a while, thinking that I could use git
> send-email --dry-run to do something equivalent, but then realized
> that git send-email's run-run mode is definitely not analogous to
> stg mail's --mbox mode.
>
> The upshot is that in stg mail, --git and --mbox don't interact
> well, and the resulting mbox file will lack the recipients. This
> might be fixed in the future if we teach git send-email how to
> generate mbox files, but then we introduce a versioning problem.

One wild idea: git send-email's --smtp-server flag will accept the
(full) path of a sendmail program; writing such a program, just
capable enough to receive the outgoing emails and dumping them to a
file, should be easy. Another option would be a program that speaks
just enough SMTP to accept the mails. (Incidentally, these two would
be useful in testing stg mail even without the --git option.)

I fully understand if you'd rather get on with scratching your actual
itch, though ...

> So let's just accept this wart for now, and say, if you want an mbox
> file generated, don't use --git. That seems reasonable to me.

Sure.

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