On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 07:05:03 -0700
Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Several of my colleagues (and myself) have expressed surprise and
> annoyance that git-send-email doesn't automatically pick up people who
> are listed in patches as Reported-by: or Reviewed-by: or ... many other
> tags that would seem (to us) to indicate that person might be interested.
> This patch to git-send-email tries to pick up all Foo-by: tags.
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Note, this is one of the reasons I still use quilt to send my email.
I've modified my quilt scripts to do what Matthew does here below.
-- Steve
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> index 2fa7818ca..926815329 100755
> --- a/git-send-email.perl
> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
> @@ -1665,7 +1665,7 @@ foreach my $t (@files) {
> # Now parse the message body
> while(<$fh>) {
> $message .= $_;
> - if (/^(Signed-off-by|Cc): (.*)/i) {
> + if (/^([A-Z-a-z]*-by|Cc): (.*)/i) {
> chomp;
> my ($what, $c) = ($1, $2);
> # strip garbage for the address we'll use:
