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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, mingo@kernel•org
Subject: Re: Is there some way to suppress Cc email only to stable?
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 13:46:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqpp9iahct.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150209214312.GC4166@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (Paul E. McKenney's message of "Mon, 9 Feb 2015 13:43:12 -0800")

"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux•vnet.ibm.com> writes:

>> > Hence the desire to have a Cc that doesn't actually send any email,
>> > but that is visible in mainline for the benefit of the scripts that
>> > handle the stable workflow.
>> 
>> So a configuration variable that you can set once and forget, e.g.
>> 
>>     [sendemail]
>> 	blacklistedRecipients = stable@vger•kernel.org
>> 
>> would not cut it, as you would _later_ want to send the e-mail once
>> the commit hits the mainline.  Am I reading you correctly?
>
> This would actually work for me.  Once the patch is accepted into
> mainline, I am done with it.  So I should -never- send email to
> stable@vger•kernel.org, unless I am doing so manually, for example because
> I forgot to add the stable tag to a given commit.  But in that case,
> I would just use mutt to forward the patch to stable@vger•kernel.org,
> and git would not be involved.

OK, thanks, we have a workable design to let us move forward, then.

Gits, any takers?

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-09 21:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-09 19:42 Is there some way to suppress Cc email only to stable? Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-09 20:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-09 21:10   ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-09 21:17     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-09 21:43       ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-09 21:46         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-02-09 22:01           ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-09 21:53 ` Jonathan Nieder
2015-02-09 23:35   ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-10  0:03     ` Greg KH
2015-02-10  0:35       ` Paul E. McKenney

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