On Tue, 2023-07-25 at 08:19 -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: > On 7/25/23 02:33, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Hi Joe, > > > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 6:22 AM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I do suggest you instead write wrapper scripts to get > > > the output you want rather than updating the defaults > > > for the script and update the process documentation > > > to let other people know what do to as well. > > > > > > Something akin to Mario Limonciello's suggestion back in 2022: > > > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220617183215.25917-1-mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx/ > > > > FTR, this is more or less what I am using to generate a script > > to send out patches: > > > > OUT=... > > echo git send-email \\ > $OUT > > # Add -cc > > # Wrap comment inside $(: ...) > > # Replace (...) in comment by [...] > > # Replace ] at EOL by ) again > > # Add continuation to EOL > > scripts/get_maintainer.pl $* | \ > > tr -d \" | \ > > sed -e 's/^/--cc "/' \ > > -e 's/ (/" $(: /' \ > > -e 's/ (/ [/' -e 's/)/]/' \ > > -e 's/]$/)/' \ > > -e 's/$/ \\/' | \ > > tee -a $OUT > > echo "*[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-*.*" >> $OUT > > > > After generation, I edit the script to > > - Replace some --cc by --to, > > - Add/remove some people, > > and run "source $OUT" to send the patches... > > > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > My script is great for single subsystem patches as it gets all the right > people but I've found problems whenever it crosses multiple subsystems. > > Many subsystem owners want to see the whole series of patches to > understand how they interact. So the group of patches needs to be > treated together which would need the wrapper to look at all patches > instead. Which can't really work all the time as vger has a recipient limit and subsystem spanning patches frequently exceed that limit. bcc's don't work well either as the reply-to chain is broken. No great solution to that.
