On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:37:14PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:

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Cc: <redacted> # 4.4+

Looks like git send-email is not able to parse this address correctly
though this is suggested format by Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.
Create wrong address If git parsers is used : 'stable@vger.kernel.org#4.4+'

Something like s/#.*$// is needed before parsing Cc:

This should be fixed by e3fdbcc8e (parse_mailboxes: accept extra text after
<...> address, 2016-10-13), which will be released next week as part of v2.11. As
a workaround, you can also install the Mail::Address perl module.  See [1] for
the gory details.

Thanks for update, I failed to understand from the thread though what
decision was actually applied, I will look at the patch itself.  I've
tried to install Mail::Address and it fixes the actual address, but it
appends  the # 4.4+ suffix into the name  as also mentioned in the
thread, which doesn't fit the stable rules doc.

The patch just brings parity to the Mail::Address behavior and git's
fallback parser, so that you don't end up with the broken
stable@vger.kernel.org#4.4+ address. Instead, that content goes into the
name part of the address.

It sounds like you want the "# 4.4+" to be dropped entirely in the
rfc822 header. It looks like send-email used to do that, but stopped in
b1c8a11c8 (send-email: allow multiple emails using --cc, --to and --bcc,
2015-06-30).

So perhaps there are further fixes required, but it's hard to know. The
input isn't a valid rfc822 header, so it's not entirely clear what the
output is supposed to be. I can buy either "drop it completely" or
"stick it in the name field of the cc header" as reasonable.

-Peff