Re: Question - no space in smtp-server-option

From

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

Date

Sep 17, 2018, 01:53 UTC

Message-ID

<20180917015324.GE154643@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>

In-Reply-To

<20180917012721.akyclbcmeqw5dv3x@tumbleweed>

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 03:27:21AM +0200, Chris Coutinho wrote:

> On Sep-16-18, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Chris Coutinho wrote:

>>> Currently my gitconfig contains the following line:
>>>
>>> 	sendemail.smtpserveroption=-a<myaccount>
>>>
>>> Whereas, the following results in an 'account' not found error:
>>>
>>> 	sendemail.smtpserveroption=-a <myaccount>
>>
>> Do you mean that your ~/.gitconfig literally contains that exact line?

[...]

> Yes that's the exact line in my gitconfig file, which correctly mails using
> the non-default account I'm after - I'm assuming you're noticing the lack of
> camelCase? To be honest, that came from zsh autosuggestions, which are all
> lower-case for some reason.

No, case shouldn't matter.  I'm noticing the it looks like

	foo.bar=baz

instead of

	[foo]
		bar = baz

(i.e. it seems to be some syntax other than ini syntax).  E.g. I tried

	echo a.b=c >test.config
	git config -f test.config -l

and get

	fatal: bad config line 1 in file test.config