On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 08:07:53AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > [adding a cross-post to the git mailing list] > > On 05/04/2018 02:10 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote: > > On Thu, 3 May 2018 22:51:40 +0300 > > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > This way they are easier to find using standard rules. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > --- > ... > > > [Goes to find cover letter to figure out what this is all about. > > *Please*, cc: people on the cover letter so they can see immediately > > what this is trying to do!] > > Is there an EASY way to make 'git format-patch --cover-letter $commitid' > (and git send-email, by extension) automatically search for all cc's any any > of the N/M patches, and auto-cc ALL of those recipients on the 0/N cover > letter? And if that is not something easily built into git format-patch > directly, is it something that can easily be added to sendemail.cccmd? This > is not the first time that someone has complained that automatic cc's are > not sending the cover letter context to a particular maintainer interested > (and auto-cc'd) in only a subset of an overall series. > > On the other hand, cc'ing all recipients for a largely mechanical patch > series that was split into 67 parts, in part because it touches so many > different maintainers' areas, may make the cover letter have so many > recipients that various mail gateways start rejecting it as potential spam. I do this sometimes (pipe to this script): grep -e ^Signed-off-by -e ^Acked -e ^Reported -e ^Tested -e ^Cc | sed 's/.*<//'| sed 's/>.*//'|sort | uniq | sed 's/^/Cc: /' > -- > Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer > Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 > Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
