On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > From: "Eric Sunshine" <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> git-send-email invokes the cc-cmd like this: >> >> $cc-cmd $patchfilename >> >> so, when you used 'cat cc-cmd' as the value of --cc-cmd, your invocation >> became: >> >> cat cc-cmd $patchfilename >> >> and since 'cat' copies the concatenation of its input files to its >> output, that explains why you first saw the names from your 'cc-cmd' >> file followed by the content of the patch file. > > Many thanks, that seems to explain everything! > > I may try and do a small doc patch for the git-send-email.txt man page (I > have a few doc fixes backing up waiting to be done ;-) That would be welcome. I don't think it's mentioned at all in git-send-email.txt that the --to-cmd/--cc-cmd commands are handed the patch pathname as an argument, so that's certainly something worth documenting. -- 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