On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Diligent people save output from format-patch to files, proofread
> and edit them and then finally send the result out. If the
> resulting files are sent out with "git send-email 0*", this ends up
> sending backup files (e.g. 0001-X.patch.backup or 0001-X.patch~)
> left by their editors next to the final version. Sending them with
> "git send-email 0*.patch" (if format-patch was run with the standard
> suffix) would avoid such an embarrassment, but not everybody is
> careful.
>
> After collecting files to be sent (and sorting them if read from a
> directory), notice when the file being sent out has the same name as
> the previous file, plus some suffix (e.g. 0001-X.patch was sent, and
> we are looking at 0001-X.patch.backup or 0001-X.patch~), and the
> suffix begins with a non-alnum (e.g. ".backup" or "~") and ask if
> the user really wants to send it out. Once the user skips sending
> such a "backup" file, remember the suffix and stop asking the same
> question (e.g. after skipping 0001-X.patch~, skip 0002-Y.patch~
> without asking).
>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> +sub handle_backup {
> + my ($last, $lastlen, $file, $known_suffix) = @_;
> + my ($suffix, $skip);
> +
> + $skip = 0;
> + if (defined $last &&
> + ($lastlen < length($file)) &&
> + (substr($file, 0, $lastlen) eq $last) &&
> + ($suffix = substr($file, $lastlen)) !~ /^[a-z0-9]/i) {
> + if (defined $known_suffix && $suffix eq $known_suffix) {
> + print "Skipping $file with backup suffix '$known_suffix'.\n";
> + $skip = 1;
> + } else {
> + my $answer = ask("Do you really want to send $file? (y|N): ",
> + valid_re => qr/^(?:y|n)/i,
> + default => 'y');
I still have the same question[1] as last time I reviewed this patch:
Should default be 'n', or am I misunderstanding?
[1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/289063/focus=289197
> + $skip = ($answer ne 'y');
> + if ($skip) {
> + $known_suffix = $suffix;
> + }
> + }
> + }
> + return ($skip, $known_suffix);
> +}
> +
> +sub handle_backup_files {
> + my @file = @_;
> + my ($last, $lastlen, $known_suffix, $skip, @result);
> + for my $file (@file) {
> + ($skip, $known_suffix) = handle_backup($last, $lastlen,
> + $file, $known_suffix);
> + push @result, $file unless $skip;
> + $last = $file;
> + $lastlen = length($file);
> + }
> + return @result;
> +}
> +
> sub file_has_nonascii {
> my $fn = shift;
> open(my $fh, '<', $fn)
> --
> 2.8.1-347-g322afaf
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