send-email: Refuse to send cover-letter template subject
authorThomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Mon, 8 Jun 2009 21:34:12 +0000 (23:34 +0200)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 16:11:15 +0000 (09:11 -0700)
Every so often, someone sends out an unedited cover-letter template.
Add a simple check to send-email that refuses to send if the subject
contains "*** SUBJECT HERE ***", with an option --force to override.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-send-email.perl
t/t9001-send-email.sh
index 6dab3bf6a74bb52c7294e33dbac5bf87b51a9fdf..bfb6a3634402ddc1411478b22e047a10d433d667 100755 (executable)
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ sub usage {
     --[no-]validate                * Perform patch sanity checks. Default on.
     --[no-]format-patch            * understand any non optional arguments as
                                      `git format-patch` ones.
+    --force                        * Send even if safety checks would prevent it.
 
 EOT
        exit(1);
@@ -162,6 +163,7 @@ sub format_2822_time {
 my ($quiet, $dry_run) = (0, 0);
 my $format_patch;
 my $compose_filename;
+my $force = 0;
 
 # Handle interactive edition of files.
 my $multiedit;
@@ -301,6 +303,7 @@ sub signal_handler {
                    "validate!" => \$validate,
                    "format-patch!" => \$format_patch,
                    "8bit-encoding=s" => \$auto_8bit_encoding,
+                   "force" => \$force,
         );
 
 unless ($rc) {
@@ -702,6 +705,16 @@ ($)
                                  default => "UTF-8");
 }
 
+if (!$force) {
+       for my $f (@files) {
+               if (get_patch_subject($f) =~ /\*\*\* SUBJECT HERE \*\*\*/) {
+                       die "Refusing to send because the patch\n\t$f\n"
+                               . "has the template subject '*** SUBJECT HERE ***'. "
+                               . "Pass --force if you really want to send.\n";
+               }
+       }
+}
+
 my $prompting = 0;
 if (!defined $sender) {
        $sender = $repoauthor || $repocommitter || '';
index 23597cc40751addd1473acd2edf7563e0a517c9e..f3aedb917688384bb900b36b6cc443d939c3b0ce 100755 (executable)
@@ -995,4 +995,40 @@ test_expect_success '--8bit-encoding also treats subject' '
        test_cmp expected actual
 '
 
+# Note that the patches in this test are deliberately out of order; we
+# want to make sure it works even if the cover-letter is not in the
+# first mail.
+test_expect_success 'refusing to send cover letter template' '
+       clean_fake_sendmail &&
+       rm -fr outdir &&
+       git format-patch --cover-letter -2 -o outdir &&
+       test_must_fail git send-email \
+         --from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
+         --to=nobody@example.com \
+         --smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \
+         outdir/0002-*.patch \
+         outdir/0000-*.patch \
+         outdir/0001-*.patch \
+         2>errors >out &&
+       grep "SUBJECT HERE" errors &&
+       test -z "$(ls msgtxt*)"
+'
+
+test_expect_success '--force sends cover letter template anyway' '
+       clean_fake_sendmail &&
+       rm -fr outdir &&
+       git format-patch --cover-letter -2 -o outdir &&
+       git send-email \
+         --force \
+         --from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
+         --to=nobody@example.com \
+         --smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \
+         outdir/0002-*.patch \
+         outdir/0000-*.patch \
+         outdir/0001-*.patch \
+         2>errors >out &&
+       ! grep "SUBJECT HERE" errors &&
+       test -n "$(ls msgtxt*)"
+'
+
 test_done