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Ben Knoble" Cc: Kristoffer Haugsbakk , Jim Cromie , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] git-send-email.perl: support executable scripts for recipient options In-Reply-To: (D. Ben Knoble's message of "Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:47:58 -0400") References: <20260319155148.1145135-1-jim.cromie@gmail.com> <14840d8a-a1cb-4499-ba78-295c778e90d1@app.fastmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:35:59 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit "D. Ben Knoble" writes: >> What’s the difference between this and `--cc-cmd` and similar? I >> wouldn’t know, I don’t use these `--*cmd` options. > > The only difference I can think of is that we have --cc-cmd, --to-cmd, > but not --bcc-cmd. > > (I use --cc-cmd via config set to git-contacts for git.git so that > patches mostly CC the right folks, but I typically have to manually > track and add discussion participants, which is a bit of a pain.) If we were inventing git-send-email today without existing users at all, we might have appreciated the simplicity of "it is easy to tell if the argument to --cc and other options is a name of an executable file on disk, so do the obvious thing depending", but this came way too late, I would have to say.