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Revert "send-email: extract email-parsing code into a subroutine"
This reverts commit b604954.
Prior to that commit, we read the results of the user editing the
"--compose" message in a loop, picking out parts we cared about, and
streaming the result out to a ".final" file. That commit split the
reading/interpreting into two phases; we'd now read into a hash, and
then pick things out of the hash.
The goal was making the code more readable. And in some ways it did,
because the ugly regexes are confined to the reading phase. But it also
introduced several bugs, because now the two phases need to match each
other. In particular:
- we pick out headers like "Subject: foo" with a case-insensitive
regex, and then use the user-provided header name as the key in a
case-sensitive hash. So if the user wrote "subject: foo", we'd no
longer recognize it as a subject.
- the namespace for the hash keys conflates header names with meta
information like "body". If you put "body: foo" in your message, it
would be misinterpreted as the actual message body (nobody is likely
to do that in practice, but it seems like an unnecessary danger).
- the handling for to/cc/bcc is totally broken. The behavior before
that commit is to recognize and skip those headers, with a note to
the user that they are not yet handled. Not great, but OK. But
after the patch, the reading side now splits the addresses into a
perl array-ref. But the interpreting side doesn't handle this at
all, and blindly prints the stringified array-ref value. This leads
to garbage like:
(mbox) Adding to: ARRAY (0x555b4345c428) from line 'To: ARRAY(0x555b4345c428)'
error: unable to extract a valid address from: ARRAY (0x555b4345c428)
What to do with this address? ([q]uit|[d]rop|[e]dit):
Probably not a huge deal, since nobody should even try to use those
headers in the first place (since they were not implemented). But
the new behavior is worse, and indicative of the sorts of problems
that come from having the two layers.
The revert had a few conflicts, due to later work in this area from
15dc3b9 (send-email: rename variable for clarity, 2018-03-04) and
d11c943 (send-email: support separate Reply-To address, 2018-03-04).
I've ported the changes from those commits over as part of the conflict
resolution.
The new tests show the bugs. Note the use of GIT_SEND_EMAIL_NOTTY in the
second one. Without it, the test is happy to reach outside the test
harness to the developer's actual terminal (when run with the buggy
state before this patch).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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