Notmuch is a new mail system with fast indexing and tagging, see
notmuchmail.org. It has a command-line tool to build replies to emails,
and I wrote a patch to format-patch that enables
git format-patch --notmuch EXPR
where EXPR is any notmuch query, but usually id:<Message-ID> to match a
specific message. This will set up several headers, notably
In-Reply-To, References, To, Cc, Bcc. This works great, and the the
patch follows this message.
But I really want
git send-email --notmuch EXPR
This sort-of works, but the interactive part prompts for the various
headers (even though format-patch supplies them), and then duplicates
the To header (both the possibly empty field the user provided, plus the
one coming from format-patch). I had a brief look at
git-send-email.perl, and I'm a little confused.
} elsif (/^(?:To|Cc|Bcc):/i) {
print "To/Cc/Bcc fields are not interpreted yet, they have been ignored\n";
next;
}
This regex doesn't match these headers (is the leading ?: a typo?) so
there is no warning. But it's important that these headers *not* be
ignored, getting them set automatically is a key feature of the
--notmuch option. I'm having trouble discerning whether I would cause
problems by just using these headers coming out of format-patch.
Presumably there was a reason why they were (intended to be) explicitly
ignored, and my poor perl skills are not helping. Could someone
enlighten me?
Jed
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