Re: [PATCH 2/2] get_maintainer: ignore "my" e-mail address

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Nov 25 2021 - 11:37:57 EST


On Thu, 2021-11-25 at 17:14 +0100, Lukasz Stelmach wrote:
> It was <2021-11-16 wto 15:14>, when Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2021-11-16 at 22:34 +0100, Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
> > > Ignore one's own e-mail address given as a parameter to --ignore-me
> > > or in the EMAIL environment variable.
> >
> > Why is this useful?
> >
> > git send-email already supports this.
> >
> > --suppress-cc=<category>
> > Specify an additional category of recipients to suppress
> > the auto-cc of:
> >
> > • author will avoid including the patch author
> >
> > • self will avoid including the sender
> >
> > --[no-]suppress-from
> > If this is set, do not add the From: address to the cc:
> > list. Default is the value of sendemail.suppressFrom
> > configuration value; if that is unspecified, default to
> > --no-suppress-from.
> >
>
> Not really, git send-email does not support --suppress-to, and with
> get_maintainers.pl coupled with git send-email as follows
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> [sendemail]
> tocmd = "`pwd`/scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit --nogit-fallback --norolestats --nol --"
> cccmd = "`pwd`/scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit --nogit-fallback --norolestats --nom --nor --nofixes --"
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> my address is added to To: if I am a maintainer of the patched files.
> To avoid this the --ignore-me options can be added to tocmd.
>