linux-kernel - git send-email and sending the cover-letter to all cc addresses found in a patch series

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Message-ID: <20180323073858.GA12077@light.dominikbrodowski.net>
Date:   Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:38:58 +0100
From:   Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>
To:     gitster@...ox.com
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        git@...r.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: git send-email and sending the cover-letter to all cc addresses
 found in a patch series

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:44:54AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> >
> > But why !? Either Cc me on more of the series such that the whole makes
> > sense, or better yet, write a proper Changelog.
> 
> This is a common issue. We should encourage people to always send at
> least the cover-page to everybody who gets cc'd, even if they don't
> get the whole series.

Will try to do that in future. Does git send-email have such an option? Or
do I have to specify all cc addresses in the cover letter manually? I found
some reference to an unresolved discussion on git@ of that topic in 2016, so
I might not be the only one who could make use of that feature...

Thanks,
	Dominik