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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] send-email: Add simple email aliases format
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 07:44:20 -0700
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Allen Hubbe <allenbh@gmail.com> writes:

> It depends what we want to do with this parser: accept existing
> sendmail aliases files in git, or enforce that git alias files are
> usable for sendmail.  I really don't expect the second to ever happen.
> The first, maybe, but only if the alias file is edited to remove
> aliases of pipes and maildirs etc.  The second may not work if we have
> comments to the right, or aliases of aliases, which sendmail does not
> claim to support.

Let me step back a bit.  Earlier you said your aim is not to use an
alias file you already have and use with the MUA/MTA, but to have a
collection of aliases to use with git-send-email only.  Is there a
reason to add support for a new format (whether it is compatible to
or subset of postfix/sendmail format, or a totally new one) for that
goal?  What makes the existing formats unsuitable?