[RFC] reduce Cc: prompts in hg email

[Martin Geisler]

Christian Ebert <blacktrash at gmx.net> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> At the moment the only way to turn off the Cc: prompt when you are
> using patchbomb is to have email|patchbomb.cc configured in your hgrc.
> Reducing the occasions for the Cc would mean a (minor) behaviour
> change.
>
> Some of the alternatives (no cc in hgrc):
>
> 1) Turn off Cc prompt altogether (behaviour like bcc)
> 2) Turn off Cc prompt when
>    [email]
>    cc =
>    "empty" value in hgrc
> 3) Turn off Cc prompt when --to option is given
> 4) Introduce a new config option, like askcc
>
> I've submitted proposals for:
>
> 2)
> http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2010-January/018150.html
> disadvantage: turns cc "magicly" into a boolean

Yeah, that's not so nice.

> 3)
> http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2010-January/018158.html
>
> I include the behaviour table for 3) again here (changes marked *):
>
> opts     hgrc     prompt   result
>                   new/old
>
> to                NO/cc    to (opts)         *
> to       to       NO/cc    to (opts)         *
> to       cc       NO       to (opts), cc (hgrc)
> to       to, cc   NO       to (opts), cc (hgrc)
>
> to, cc            NO       to (opts), cc (opts)
> to, cc   to       NO       to (opts), cc (opts)
> to, cc   cc       NO       to (opts), cc (opts)
> to, cc   to, cc   NO       to (opts), cc (opts)
>
> cc                to       to (prompt), cc (opts)
> cc       to       NO       to (hgrc), cc (opts)
> cc       cc       cc       to (prompt), cc (opts)
> cc       to, cc   NO       to (hgrc), cc (opts)
>
>                   to, cc   to (prompt), cc (prompt)
>          to       cc       to (hgrc), cc (prompt)
>          cc       to       to (opts), cc (hgrc)
>          to, cc   NO       to (hgrc), cc (hgrc)

I like this option, thanks for making such a nice analysis :-) I haven't
taken the time to look at the patches yet and it's hard for me to say
when I'll do so. They wont be forgotten, they just might linger a bit
until I or someone else from crew pushes them.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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