Re: [GIT PULL rcu/next] RCU commits for 3.20

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Feb 10 2015 - 13:34:53 EST


On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 09:19:48AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > > OK, so if I understand correctly, I need to add the Cc:
> > > stable tags after the last
> > > git-format-patch/git-send-email, but (of course) before
> > > the git-request-pull. Is that the trick?
> >
> > So I'd try to avoid the unnecessary rebase: teach
> > git-send-email to not Cc: to -stable, even though it's in
> > the Cc: list? Not sure how that's done though.
> >
>
> --suppress-cc=stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ?
>
> or as an alternative
>
> --suppress-cc=bodycc
>
> Maybe that's what you're looking for.

It wasn't obvious from the documentation that placing the email address
in "--suppress-cc=stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" would work. However, Greg KH
says that it is OK to Cc stable -- apparently the gripe-mail I got some
time back when doing this was an anomaly.

Thanx, Paul

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