[PATCH v2 0/3] send-email: teach git send-email mode to translate aliases

The b4 program has its own "b4 send" utility for sending a patch series. It is similar in many respects to git send-email. Currently, it lacks support for processing aliases, which makes switching between git send-email and b4 send somewhat annoying.

It would be convenient if b4 (or other programs interacting with git) could make use of git send-email's alias file support.

Teach git send-email a new --translate-aliases option, which enables a new mode for git send-email. When executed with this option, git send-email will read standard input and convert each input according to the configured alias file. The resulting address will be output to standard out.

I also considered implementing a new "full" format for --dump-aliases which would dump the entire alias file along with its configured email addresses. I ended up dropping that change as I felt that it would be less usable than the translation feature.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
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Changes in v2:
- Use standard input instead of command line arguments
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240808-jk-translate-alias-send-email-v1-0-10a03b3d6b06@gmail.com

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Jacob Keller (3):
      t90001-send-email.sh: fix quoting for mailrc --dump-aliases test
      t9001-send-email.sh: update alias list used for pine test
      send-email: teach git send-email option to translate aliases

 Documentation/git-send-email.txt |   7 +++
 git-send-email.perl              |  21 ++++++-
 t/t9001-send-email.sh            | 118 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 3 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 406f326d271e0bacecdb00425422c5fa3f314930
change-id: 20240808-jk-translate-alias-send-email-1ce048643e5d

Best regards,