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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>,
	gitster@pobox.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Subject: Re: git-send-email: Ability to populate CC using more tags
Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 12:06:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f723cce2bcbccbfdf6ebc80d1e68ba4fe10c2aee.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200519184041.GB4397@Mani-XPS-13-9360>

On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 00:10 +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Currently 'git-send-email' lacks the ability to CC people described using
> tags such as Acked-by and Reported-by etc...
> 
> While doing a bit of googling, I found a patch from Joe [1] but that doesn't
> look like made its way. And in that discussion I didn't see any real objections
> for the patch intention apart from the usage of the term 'trailers'.
> 
> So I'm just curious if Joe or anyone has plan to resubmit it! If not I may
> do that.
> 
> PS: 'bylines' as mentioned by Joe seems reasonable to me.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mani
> 
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/30/650

You need to use the "--misc-by" option.

Perhaps you need to update your git version
as that was added with:

commit ef0cc1df90f6b6c2987ab2db8e0ccf2cfc421edf
Author: Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Date:   Tue Oct 16 09:39:23 2018 +0200

send-email: also pick up cc addresses from -by trailers



  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-19 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-19 18:40 git-send-email: Ability to populate CC using more tags Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-05-19 19:06 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2020-05-20  7:55   ` Manivannan Sadhasivam

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