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can't substitute etc/teams.scm command as doc suggests

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Message #92 received at 58813 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com, 58813 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Document how to use Patman for patches submission.
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 10:01:09 +0100

Hi,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> I've also discovered about '--cc-cmd', which could be used with the
> recently introduced get-maintainer mode (which was added for patman
> support); it can be used like this:
>
> git send-email --cc-cmd='etc/teams.scm get-maintainer' --dry-run -1

Nice!  But yeah, would be nicer if it could use X-Debbugs-Cc.

Perhaps we can still change the manual to recommend that followed by
“sed -i *.patch -es/^Cc/X-Debbugs-Cc/”?

Very low-tech but better than the status quo.  WDYT?

> For this reason, I'm toying with the idea of contributing a "--x-cmd"
> option to git send-email, which would be a script that outputs arbitrary
> git send-email options to add to its command line.

That’d be perfect!

Ludo’.

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