[PATCH 0 of 2] patchbomb: ask for confirmation displaying summary of series

Christian Ebert blacktrash at gmx.net
Fri Jan 29 13:12:17 CST 2010


* Matt Mackall on Friday, January 29, 2010 at 12:27:01 -0600
> On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 16:55 +0000, Christian Ebert wrote:
>> Still another proposal to change/improve the interface of patchbomb:
>> 
>> 1) Never prompt for cc, treat it like bcc
> 
> I don't really like this change. If I've used patchbomb for years
> expecting it to give me a cc: prompt when I give no args, I'll be
> bitten. I don't much like the interactive nature of patchbomb but my
> earlier suggestion (skip cc: prompt when from: is given)

You mean: when to: is given?

> is really about as far as I think we should bend things.
> 
>> 2) Before sending display Subject (with -v/--verbose only),
>>   From, To, Cc, Bcc and ask for user's confirmation
> 
> And I'm not sure about this one. It's not a fix for the shortcomings of
> (1) because it involves a new option.

I was taking out the --verbose switch anyway.
Confirmation with display of headers: yes or no?

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