Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 8/8] SubmittingPatches: demonstrate using git-contacts with git-send-email

From: Linus Arver <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:03:29 -0700

Kipras Melnikovas <[email-masked]> writes:

> I don't think `git contacts` is available by default?

Correct. It's a Perl script that lives under contrib/ in the git repo
(it's not part of the core set of default Git subcommands that the "git"
binary is built with). On Ubuntu it lives under
/usr/share/doc/git/contrib/contacts/git-contacts [1].

[1] https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/amd64/git/filelist

I could add a blurb about this to avoid confusion. Will update.

> ...
> $ git contacts
> git: 'contacts' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
> ...
>
> ...
> $ git send-email --to=[email-masked] --cc-cmd='git contacts' 0001-TEMP.patch
> 0001-TEMP.patch
> git: 'contacts' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
> (cc-cmd) failed to close pipe to 'git contacts' at /opt/homebrew/opt/git/libexec/git-core/git-send-email line 2021.
> ...