From: Eric Sunshine Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 22:29:23 GMT Subject: [PATCH 1/9] send-email: further document missing sendmail aliases functionality Message-ID: <1433111371-19573-2-git-send-email-sunshine@sunshineco.com> In-Reply-To: <1433111371-19573-1-git-send-email-sunshine@sunshineco.com> Sendmail aliases[1] supports expansion to a file ("/path/name") or pipe ("|command"), as well as file inclusion (":include: /path/name"), however, our implementation does not support such functionality. [1]: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=aliases&sektion=5 Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine --- Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index b48a764..e6d466e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -396,6 +396,9 @@ sendmail;; contain a `"` symbol are ignored. * Line continuations are not supported: lines that start with whitespace characters, or end with a `\` symbol are ignored. +* Redirection to a file (`/path/name`) or pipe (`|command`) is not + supported. +* File inclusion (`:include: /path/name`) is not supported. * Warnings are printed on the standard error output for any explicitly unsupported constructs, and any other lines that are not recognized by the parser. -- 2.4.2.538.g5f4350e