> In some projects contributions from groups are only accepted from a > common group email address. But every individual may want to recieve > replies to her own personal address. That's what we have 'Reply-To' > headers for in SMTP. > > Introduce an optional '--reply-to' command line option. Unfortunately > the $reply_to variable name was already taken for the 'In-Reply-To' > header field. To reduce code churn, use $reply_address as variable > name instead. That $reply_to variable is only accessed in 6 lines. I wouldn't consider it that much of a code churn to rename it in a preparatory patch. > Signed-off-by: Christian Ludwig <chrissicool@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 5 +++++ > git-send-email.perl | 18 +++++++++++++++++- > t/t9001-send-email.sh | 2 ++ > 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Please add the new option to the completion script as well, to keep it up to date. > diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt > index 8060ea35c..c3bc622b1 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt > @@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ See the CONFIGURATION section for `sendemail.multiEdit`. > the value of GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT, or GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT if that is not > set, as returned by "git var -l". > > +--reply-to=<address>:: > + Specify the address that replies from reciepients should s/reciepients/recipients/ And I don't like that "that" and would prefer e.g. "where" instead, but I'd rather leave this to the native English speakers. > + to go. Use this if replies to messages should go to another s/to go/go to/