Re: git-send-email: Ability to populate CC using more tags

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue May 19 2020 - 15:06:51 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Oct 16 09:39:23 2018 +0200

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