Re: git-send-email: Ability to populate CC using more tags

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 00:10 +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Currently 'git-send-email' lacks the ability to CC people described using
> tags such as Acked-by and Reported-by etc...
> 
> While doing a bit of googling, I found a patch from Joe [1] but that doesn't
> look like made its way. And in that discussion I didn't see any real objections
> for the patch intention apart from the usage of the term 'trailers'.
> 
> So I'm just curious if Joe or anyone has plan to resubmit it! If not I may
> do that.
> 
> PS: 'bylines' as mentioned by Joe seems reasonable to me.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mani
> 
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/30/650

You need to use the "--misc-by" option.

Perhaps you need to update your git version
as that was added with:

commit ef0cc1df90f6b6c2987ab2db8e0ccf2cfc421edf
Author: Rasmus Villemoes <rv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Oct 16 09:39:23 2018 +0200

send-email: also pick up cc addresses from -by trailers