From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Faye-Lund Subject: Re: How can I specify the "sendmail" program for git-send-email? Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:25:47 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20120611073232.GA5602@richard> <20120611090431.GA23447@richard> <7v4nqh96z5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Reply-To: kusmabite@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Richard Yang , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 11 18:26:47 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Se7S2-0006s5-EA for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:26:46 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754983Ab2FKQ0a (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:26:30 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:35813 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753484Ab2FKQ02 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:26:28 -0400 Received: by dady13 with SMTP id y13so5605489dad.19 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:26:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=SNRZ8cImOssH/LgYOlJKDMSK+FsmfHGDKt84zWr8/y0=; b=M/KEwMApp4bjw4bf3YDLcAWLFN2tvgi2pmLFrpdlEjDjUnK2hqhb+oicXKiVwa7K1n cBfaxiSwoB4SH1MHj+LzWxvSLyH9JIm8+IB848yYTjD184cT1InVzVZKlrYvXcOV8Hsg W0cUrSO+0bkLqACrj14M1uC/14pMvf8ixZC0Tm6RWcJKbNwhrxQOOCbEsISvMmI6l/p0 4zEwse2LmDN0Ru++Bif/DZCz7LJwqXEqIJ/sLpMjPva3rRNObzTGb1+Zt7+3RDaSmezF nUuvLuVZvSiumPeyYfCFM4CnobHuL3ZGnuZro7OiFvMNBKLkAwUouFADZcvK14vMabgQ m1wg== Received: by 10.68.132.166 with SMTP id ov6mr28910748pbb.24.1339431988012; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.40.98 with HTTP; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:25:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7v4nqh96z5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Erik Faye-Lund writes: > >> Well, I've always been slightly annoyed by the "send-mail" vs >> "sendemail" inconsistency. > > Hrm, isn't it between "sendmail" (as in /usr/lib/sendmail) and > "send-email" (a subcommand of git)? > Ugh, you are right. My brain must have been defective :) >> Perhaps we could do something along these >> lines (plus all documentation-updates, omitted for clarity) to reduce >> the risk of confusion? > > Assuming that the contrast between "sendmail" and "git send-email" > is what you are trying to address, I fail to see how it would help > reducing the confusion if you start naming configuration variables > used by "git send-email" without E. > No, this was just me being a moron. > If the proposal were to give "send-email.$var" synomyms to > corresponding "sendemail.$var" variables, I would have been > persuaded to believe it may alleviate potential confusion, though. This was really the way I wanted to go, but I somehow got unsure about the legality of the dashes in config sections. I'm a bit skeptical to introducing new non-letter characters if we don't have to. So let's just drop my suggestion. I wasn't thinking straight.