Johannes Altmanninger <aclopte@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 11:19:45AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Johannes Altmanninger <aclopte@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > BTW is there a good way to tell "git send-email --in-reply-to" >> > to prefill "To:" and "Cc:" based on the message I'm replying to? >> >> I do not think there is, and I do not think it is readily feasible. >> Given a message ID, how would you figure out these two values? >> Hardcode the URL of mailing list archive and the rules to find these >> values given a message ID? What if you have a local mail archive >> that you'd rather use instead of going to the public internet? > > The "b4" tool accepts message IDs and allows to configure how to look up > message contents. This is the default: > > [b4] > # Where to look up threads by message id > midmask = https://lore.kernel.org/r/%s > > b4 has some powerful features but I think I just want something that reads an > email on stdin and outputs the appropriate "send-email --in-reply-to" command. > I'll probably parse the mail headers myself. I know about "b4" and use it myself, but so what? "git" is used by a lot wider audience than those who can fetch patches from k.org. So, I think it still is correct to say that it is not readily feasible, without telling the command ways to turn a message-ID into to/cc addresses.
