On 01/11/2013 09:47 AM, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 09:39:06AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > >>> Please don't answer "y" when git send email shows the following prompt: >>> >> >> Anyone willing to patch upstream 'git send-email' to reject a simple 'y' > What version of git? Commit 51bbccf is in v1.7.12.1 and higher, and > says: > > $ git show 51bbccf > commit 51bbccfd1b4a9e2807413022c56ab05c835164fb > Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue Aug 14 15:15:53 2012 -0700 > > send-email: validate & reconfirm interactive responses > > People answer 'y' to "Who should the emails appear to be from?" and > 'n' to "Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the first email?" > for some unknown reason. While it is possible that your local > username really is "y" and you are sending the mail to your local > colleagues, it is possible, and some might even say it is likely, > that it is a user error. Awesome! Already implemented! In the case that sparked this particular email, the culprit was using 1.7.3.4; earlier this month, a separate culprit to the same libvirt mailing list was using 1.7.11.7. I was right about it needing to take a few months to percolate to the actual users. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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