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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Jan “Khardix” Staněk" <khardix@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-send-email: smtpserver in $HOME
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 10:45:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YCvotU6KVruFuf9/@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo8gksqr4.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 06:14:39PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jan “Khardix” Staněk  <khardix@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Would it be feasible to treat the `smtpserver` as path option
> > and expand `~`/`~user` paths?
> > Would it break anything
> > (i.e., is `~` a valid character for beginning of a hostname)?
> 
> I haven't given too much thought, but offhand do not think of a
> reason why a change like the attached would break things.

I agree it's unlikely to break anything.

Still, it seems a bit unusual for an executed program to handle tilde
like this. The usual mechanism is for us to run it with the shell and
expect to find it in $PATH.

It looks like there's some weirdness here, though; $smtp_server may be a
hostname, and it looks like we use "/" to distinguish a file path. I
wonder if allowing "!my-sendmail" would be more consistent with other
parts of Git (not to mention more flexible).

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-16 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-15 14:07 git-send-email: smtpserver in $HOME Jan “Khardix” Staněk
2021-02-16  2:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-16 12:49   ` Jan “Khardix” Staněk
2021-02-16 18:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-16 22:14       ` Jan “Khardix” Staněk
2021-02-18 10:18         ` Chris Torek
2021-02-18 12:57           ` Andreas Schwab
2021-02-16 15:45   ` Jeff King [this message]
2021-02-16 18:57     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-16 19:05       ` Jeff King
2021-02-16 19:16         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-16 19:23           ` Jeff King
2021-02-16 22:31         ` Jan “Khardix” Staněk

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