On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10-05-17, 16:04, Viresh Kumar wrote: >> On 10-05-17, 12:18, Ćvar Arnfjörđ Bjarmason wrote: >> > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > I have a use case and wanted help from you guys.. >> > > >> > > I have set the sendemail.tocmd option in my kernel's .git/config >> > > file and that works very well. But sometimes I want to avoid that >> > > (for example sending the patch to someone without the list and >> > > maintainers). >> > > >> > > The suppress-cc=all option works quite well to avoid almost >> > > everything (including running --cc-cmd), but it doesn't suppress >> > > --to-cmd. >> > > >> > > Are there any specific reasons why it is being done that way? >> > > >> > > Currently I need to go edit my .git/config file and remove tocmd >> > > before sending any such patches and it sucks :) >> > >> > Does something like this work: >> > >> > git -c sendemail.tocmd=/bin/false send-email ... >> > >> > ? >> >> That failed. I tried with 2.12 version first and then on the next branch with >> version: 2.13.0.303.g4ebf3021692d >> >> $ git -c sendemail.tocmd=/bin/false send-email --to vingu 0001-abc.patch >> 0001-abc.patch >> (mbox) Adding cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> from line 'From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>' >> (body) Adding cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> from line 'Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>' >> (to-cmd) failed to close pipe to '/bin/false' at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-send-email line 1687. > > And even if this worked, I believe that the right solution would be to fix > suppress-cc to include tocmd also. That's the whole purpose of suppress-cc > option. Indeed, it looks like either there should be a new option or the existing option amended to work with tocmd as you suggest. I was just wondering if there was a way to do this now, even if with some non-obvious hack.