From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D401F20013E for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2024 13:48:00 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1723038481; cv=none; b=XgIGDeZ3VvUV+CONshwXgTepnf4YQzhMxSF1kHzdLrRgrNGxNwvaDU3MS8fdokDb8n6rQEfe30s6fG1L37gYJ7lJmVkpkUNvgUh4Q4QUjXn6ABHYHhkMVKhUef4V+wHYIkkCrnFI8BvviGbfDughMTGDhCg1xxUuqJsk7mAQmF8= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1723038481; c=relaxed/simple; bh=FirciVTp/gV9Lkzc9o6mP/9AY2+7GvXcDXPTwlewtag=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=bueyO+yaiHcS4gPWowjHT8hrADuL3NNfPgva+YnmOFbbiuWIk1JgxJmwXRXfy2yb7GML43oiR2Ysuj1/nSWSjoaflQNXJLBtIhak1bAxLqv3in5taIp/weVA+81tBw/Mvff0R5idIrQc4WwUQaHgiIojHy4CE62E11r3BNn8zTM= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=HDMAn0t9; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="HDMAn0t9" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) id 6F383C32782; Wed, 7 Aug 2024 13:48:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 38F56C4AF0B; Wed, 7 Aug 2024 13:48:00 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1723038480; bh=FirciVTp/gV9Lkzc9o6mP/9AY2+7GvXcDXPTwlewtag=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=HDMAn0t9L4JO8ufzWBDKPYVLXp8l5vMCHD9FPMDa8H1mJz9VwCtEm0AK/XFej0Q/7 QBp9WFylY6OayQ3TWCKyilkQI9cMuVIf1q56V/+cu/pSnMJFqavwbgxIfpw90NSUJ+ CwZzsAdZC63b9XPgZq5L/AsDV0ynJTcrS4X2/DnA= Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 09:47:56 -0400 From: Konstantin Ryabitsev To: Jacob Keller Cc: tools@kernel.org Subject: Re: b4 send support for email alias file Message-ID: <20240807-amorphous-vague-markhor-bb1a1d@lemur> References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: tools@linux.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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/ > 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. :) -K