Re: b4 send support for email alias file

[Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>]

On 8/7/2024 6:47 AM, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 02:19:57PM GMT, Jacob Keller wrote:
>> I have recently been trying to switch to using b4 as my tool for sending
>> patch sets. I previously used git send-email. send-email has support for
>> an email alias file which allows specifying shorthand nicknames for
>> emails and automatically translating those aliases into the full name
>> and email address.
> 
> Right, this has come up several times in the past -- the TLDR is that it's not
> as straightforward as it seems at first:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/tools/20231212-illustrious-lion-of-psychology-d85d9d@meerkat/
> 

Sure. I guess you could pick and limit a format, but then inevitably
that would lead to users wanting to support whatever format that git
supports.

>> Would it be possible to have b4 either handle git's email alias file? Or
>> perhaps have its own file/config options?
> 
> I have a counter-offer -- suggest on the git list that the --dump-aliases
> switch should also have a way to provide destinations, not just aliases
> themselves. Then we won't need to support 6 different alias file formats and
> can just rely on git doing the translation. :)
> 

Perhaps also just an option to request git send-email translate the
alias itself? I can look into that, I think it would be fairly easy to
implement.

> -K