Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 09.05.2012 14:38, schrieb Jim Meyering: >> Alexander Graf wrote: >>> Hrm :) >> >> That appears to be due to scripts/get_maintainer.pl not sanitizing >> its output addresses. E.g., using my 06/22 patch, I get this bogus Cc: >> >> $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl 0006-*|grep open >> [email protected] (open list:POSIX) > > What's bogus about that? The email address is that of our mailing list, > we use it for subsystems where we don't have a particular maintainer. L: > gets translated to "open list" and the MAINTAINERS section is apparently > titled "POSIX". Comments to be ignored by MTAs can be indicated in > parenthesis as far as I remember RFC822, so it seems semantically and > syntactically correct. What would need to be sanitized?
You're right. The parenthesized quantity should be ignored. > I have once seen that break when replying to messages though. Maybe when > the list of CCs gets broken into multiple lines? That would be a > git-send-email or MUA problem then though. The Cc: addresses were added one per line. For the record, here's the head of the file that caused the trouble (it was one of the 22 arguments to git-send-email): From 999cf5c62ec798b0698970a0bad05b578e3bee3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 17:06:18 +0200 Cc: Alexander Graf <[email protected]> Cc: Avi Kivity <[email protected]> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] (open list:PowerPC) Cc: [email protected] (open list:Overall) Here's the command I invoked on a debian-unstable system using git 1.7.10 and postfix as the MTA: git send-email --compose --suppress-from \ --from='Jim Meyering <[email protected]>' [email protected] 00*
