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Re: How can I specify the "sendmail" program for git-send-email?

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Date
Jun 11, 2012, 09:25 UTC
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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> a écrit :
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> Well, I've always been slightly annoyed by the "send-mail" vs
> "sendemail" inconsistency. Perhaps we could do something along these
> lines (plus all documentation-updates, omitted for clarity) to reduce
> the risk of confusion?
>
> Yeah, the leaking of $identity between different sections is a bit
> suboptimal, but as a fallback-mechanism I don't think it actually
> matters much.
[...]
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> -# read configuration from [sendemail "$identity"], fall back on [sendemail]
> +# read configuration from [sendmail "$identity"], fall back on [sendmail]
> +$identity = Git::config(@repo, "sendmail.identity") unless (defined  
> $identity);
> +read_config("sendmail.$identity") if (defined $identity);
> +read_config("sendmail");
> +# same as above, but with legacy "sendemail"
>  $identity = Git::config(@repo, "sendemail.identity") unless (defined
> $identity);
>  read_config("sendemail.$identity") if (defined $identity);
>  read_config("sendemail");

I'm not very familiar with perl, but do you mean to replace "sendemail" by "sendmail" or just make "sendmail" usable in the config file, along with "sendemail" ?

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