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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: sendemail.aliasesfile support enavironment
 variables and tilde
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:40:31 -0500
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On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 09:06:19PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:

> It apperas that this is not possible with 1.7.0:
> 
>     # ~/.gitconfig
>     [sendemail]
>             aliasesfile = $HOME/.mailrc
> 
> => opening $HOME/.mailrc: No such file or directory
> ls -la $HOME/.mailrc
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2008-05-31 11:08 /home/foo/.mailrc -> vc/git/shell-account-common/.mailrc
> 
> Neither seems to be "~/.mailrc" accpeted. Please add support for at
> least tilde(~).

If you (or anyone) are interested in writing the patch, it is as simple
as adding "--path" to the "git config" call for sendemail.aliasesfile.
Which unfortunately is not that simple, due to the way that sendemail
handles its config values, but the refactoring should not be too hard.

-Peff