* Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> [2012-12-26 12:35:28 -0800]: > > > > Anyway, I could imagine this as optional flag of git format-patch, so you could say: > > $ git format-patch -s --in-reply-to-email <mboxfile> a7fe7de8 > > > > But I'll save that as an exercise for the reader (or the future) > > I think a much more general approach would be to turn your script > into "get-msg-id" script and use it like so: > > $ git format-patch --in-reply-to $(get-msg-id <mboxfile>) a7fe7de8 > > Then you can reuse that script in a context outside format-patch, > whereever you need the message-id in a single message in the > mailbox. > That would work for the message-ID, but not for the various To: and Cc: addresses. The hacky script that I sent afterwards produces a string with the various options to git format-patch (--to --cc --in-reply-to) based on the headers To:/Cc:/From:/Message-ID: Cheers Simon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html