send-email: don't cc *-by lines with '-' prefix

baruchsiach · gitster · commit 9c545816befc · 2019-04-04T18:50:03.000+09:00
Since commit ef0cc1d ("send-email: also pick up cc addresses from -by trailers") in git version 2.20, git send-email adds to cc list addresses from all *-by lines. As a side effect a line with '-Signed-off-by' is now also added to cc. This makes send-email pick lines from patches that remove patch files from the git repo. This is common in the Buildroot project that often removes (and adds) patch files that have 'Signed-off-by' in their patch description part. Consider only *-by lines that start with [a-z] (case insensitive) to avoid unrelated addresses in cc. Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il> Acked-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -1699,7 +1699,7 @@ sub process_file {
 	# Now parse the message body
 	while(<$fh>) {
 		$message .=  $_;
-		if (/^([a-z-]*-by|Cc): (.*)/i) {
+		if (/^([a-z][a-z-]*-by|Cc): (.*)/i) {
 			chomp;
 			my ($what, $c) = ($1, $2);
 			# strip garbage for the address we'll use:
