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

Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Krzysztof Mazur [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl

@@ -924,6 +924,10 @@ sub quote_subject {
 # use the simplest quoting being able to handle the recipient
 sub sanitize_address {
        my ($recipient) = @_;
+
+       # remove garbage after email address
+       $recipient =~ s/(.*>).*$/$1/;
+

Looks fine, but I would do s/(.*?>)(.*)$/$1/, so that 'test
[off-list ref] <#comment>' gets the second comment removed.

Yeah, but do you need to capture the second group?  IOW, like
"s/(.*?>).*$/$1/" perhaps?