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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 14:23:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YCwbsKIKNHTMJJHQ@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy2fnq0vx.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 11:16:18AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > Sure, but you cannot say "does it refer to a local file" for a
> > non-absolute path.
> 
> Hmph, why not?  I would expect that this would work as a valid way
> 
> 	$ git send-email --smtp-server=./my-phoney-smtp
> 
> to test a server substitute (perhaps for testing).  The only reason
> why it does not is because file_name_is_absolute() check would not
> like it.

Ah, sure. But you cannot say "my-phoney-smtp" and find it in the PATH,
because it is syntactically indistinguishable from a host with the same
name.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-16 19:25 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
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 [this message]
2021-02-16 22:31         ` Jan “Khardix” Staněk

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