Pass additional metadata to sendemail-validate hook from git send-email

Hi,

I was hoping to put a feature proposal forward for git send-email.

For git send-email there is a git hook, sendemail-validate which gets the body of the email that will be sent but is missing some of the metadata that git send-email has access to. I propose that we also pass the extra metadata that gets presented to the user later on via stdout such as: From, To, Cc, Subject, Date, Message-Id, X-Mailer, MIME-Version, Content-Transfer-Encoding to the git hook.

I'm willing to work on the patch but want to make sure the idea would be accepted first.

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Hi,

Hey,

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I was hoping to put a feature proposal forward for git send-email.

For git send-email there is a git hook, sendemail-validate which
gets the body of the email that will be sent but is missing some
of the metadata that git send-email has access to. I propose that
we also pass the extra metadata that gets presented to the user
later on via stdout such as: From, To, Cc, Subject, Date, Message-Id, X-Mailer, MIME-Version, Content-Transfer-Encoding to
the git hook.

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I'm willing to work on the patch but want to make sure the idea
would be accepted first.

I think the idea is interesting and would be willing to see a patch come
to the list.

However, having said that, we typically evaluate patches, not proposals,
so to see if it's actually accepted, you'd have to actually send a
patch. We may find that while the idea is interesting, it turns out to
be infeasible, or, for whatever reason, the patch is unsuitable.

I know that this is different from how other projects typically work,
where you typically pitch an idea first and then implement, but it's
what we do here.

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brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA