Since commit ef0cc1df90f6b ("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 <[email protected]> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <[email protected]> --- git-send-email.perl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl index 8eb63b5a2f8d..5656ba83d9b1 100755 --- a/git-send-email.perl +++ b/git-send-email.perl @@ -1693,7 +1693,7 @@ 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: -- 2.20.1

