[libvirt] git send-email should not allow 'y' for in-reply-to
Eric Blake
eblake at redhat.com
Fri Jan 11 17:51:42 UTC 2013
On 01/11/2013 09:47 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 09:39:06AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>
>>> Please don't answer "y" when git send email shows the following prompt:
>>>
>>
>> Anyone willing to patch upstream 'git send-email' to reject a simple 'y'
> What version of git? Commit 51bbccf is in v1.7.12.1 and higher, and
> says:
>
> $ git show 51bbccf
> commit 51bbccfd1b4a9e2807413022c56ab05c835164fb
> Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster at pobox.com>
> Date: Tue Aug 14 15:15:53 2012 -0700
>
> send-email: validate & reconfirm interactive responses
>
> People answer 'y' to "Who should the emails appear to be from?" and
> 'n' to "Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the first email?"
> for some unknown reason. While it is possible that your local
> username really is "y" and you are sending the mail to your local
> colleagues, it is possible, and some might even say it is likely,
> that it is a user error.
Awesome! Already implemented! In the case that sparked this particular
email, the culprit was using 1.7.3.4; earlier this month, a separate
culprit to the same libvirt mailing list was using 1.7.11.7.
I was right about it needing to take a few months to percolate to the
actual users.
--
Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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