scripts/send-pull-request: Avoid multiple chain headers

When creating a patch set with cover letter using the
send-pull-request script, both the "In-Reply-To" and "References"
headers are appended twice in patch 2 and subsequent.

That's because git-format-patch already inserted them and then
git-send-email repeats that. Suppressing mail threading in
git-send-email with --no-thread avoids the problem and is the
right solution because it works regardless whether git-send-email is
called once or twicee.

Repeating these headers is a violation of RFC 2822 and can confuse
mail programs. For example, Patchwork does not detect a patch series
problem when there are these extra headers.

[YOCTO #10718]

(From OE-Core rev: 303a1aa3df43eb0b693d8602062fa33c4a08fdd6)

Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/send-pull-request b/scripts/send-pull-request
index 575549db38..883deacb07 100755
--- a/scripts/send-pull-request
+++ b/scripts/send-pull-request
@@ -158,11 +158,16 @@ GIT_EXTRA_CC=$(for R in $EXTRA_CC; do echo -n "--cc='$R' "; done)
 unset IFS
 
 # Handoff to git-send-email. It will perform the send confirmation.
+# Mail threading was already handled by git-format-patch in
+# create-pull-request, so we must not allow git-send-email to
+# add In-Reply-To and References headers again.
 PATCHES=$(echo $PDIR/*.patch)
 if [ $AUTO_CL -eq 1 ]; then
         # Send the cover letter to every recipient, both specified as well as
         # harvested. Then remove it from the patches list.
-        eval "git send-email $GIT_TO $GIT_CC $GIT_EXTRA_CC --confirm=always --no-chain-reply-to --suppress-cc=all $CL"
+        # --no-thread is redundant here (only sending a single message) and
+        # merely added for the sake of consistency.
+        eval "git send-email $GIT_TO $GIT_CC $GIT_EXTRA_CC --confirm=always --no-thread --suppress-cc=all $CL"
         if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
                 echo "ERROR: failed to send cover-letter with automatic recipients."
                 exit 1
@@ -172,7 +177,7 @@ fi
 
 # Send the patch to the specified recipients and, if -c was specified, those git
 # finds in this specific patch.
-eval "git send-email $GIT_TO $GIT_EXTRA_CC --confirm=always --no-chain-reply-to $GITSOBCC $PATCHES"
+eval "git send-email $GIT_TO $GIT_EXTRA_CC --confirm=always --no-thread $GITSOBCC $PATCHES"
 if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
         echo "ERROR: failed to send patches."
         exit 1