Re: Failure to extra stable@vger.kernel.org addresses

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:57:47AM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote:

Hi guys,

for whatever reason my git has started acting up with
stable@vger.kernel.org addresses. It doesn't manage to extract a valid
adress from the string:

 Cc: [off-list ref] # v3.4 v3.5 v3.6

Removing the comment at the end of the line makes things work again. I
do remember, however, seeing this working since few weeks back I sent a
mail to stable (in fact the same one I'm using to test), so this could
be related to some perl updates, who knows ?!?

You probably just installed Email::Valid package.

The current git-send-email works a little better and just prints an error:

W: unable to extract a valid address from: [off-list ref] #v3.4 v3.5 v3.6


This patch should fix the problem, now after <email> any garbage is
removed while extracting address.

diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 5a7c29d..bb659da 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl

@@ -828,7 +828,7 @@ sub extract_valid_address {
 	# check for a local address:
 	return $address if ($address =~ /^($local_part_regexp)$/);
 
-	$address =~ s/^\s*<(.*)>\s*$/$1/;
+	$address =~ s/^\s*<(.*)>.*$/$1/;
 	if ($have_email_valid) {
 		return scalar Email::Valid->address($address);
 	} else {

Krzysiek