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[PATCH v3 3/3] send-email: add mailmap support via sendemail.mailmap and --mailmap

From
Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Date
Aug 27, 2024, 21:27 UTC
Message-ID
<20240827-jk-send-email-mailmap-support-v3-3-bec5ba9be391@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20240827-jk-send-email-mailmap-support-v3-0-bec5ba9be391@gmail.com>
From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>

In some cases, a user may be generating a patch for an old commit which now has an out-of-date author or other identity. For example, consider a team member who contributes to an internal fork of an upstream project, but leaves before this change is submitted upstream.

In this case, the team members company address may no longer be valid, and will thus bounce when sending email.

This can be manually avoided by editing the generated patch files, or by carefully using --suppress-<cc|to> options. This requires a lot of manual intervention and is easy to forget.

Git has support for mapping old email addresses and names to a canonical name and address via the .mailmap file (and its associated mailmap.file, mailmap.blob, and log.mailmap options).

Teach git send-email to enable mailmap support for all addresses. This ensures that addresses point to the canonical real name and email address.

Add the sendemail.mailmap configuration option and its associated --mailmap (and --use-mailmap for compatibility with git log) options. For now, the default behavior is to disable the mailmap in order to avoid any surprises or breaking any existing setups.

These options support per-identity configuration via the sendemail.identity configuration blocks. This enables identity-specific configuration in cases where users may not want to enable support.

In addition, support send-email specific mailmap data via sendemail.mailmap.file, sendemail.mailmap.blob and their identity-specific variants.

The intention of these options is to enable mapping addresses which are no longer valid to a current project or team maintainer. Such mappings may change the actual person being referred to, and may not make sense in a traditional mailmap file which is intended for updating canonical name and address for the same individual.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
---
 git-send-email.perl   |  20 +++++++++
 t/t9001-send-email.sh | 122 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 142 insertions(+)
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 72044e5ef3a8..8995d5f12d9e 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ sub usage {
     --compose-encoding      <str>  * Encoding to assume for introduction.
     --8bit-encoding         <str>  * Encoding to assume 8bit mails if undeclared
     --transfer-encoding     <str>  * Transfer encoding to use (quoted-printable, 8bit, base64)
+    --[no-]mailmap                 * Use mailmap file to map all email addresses to canonical
+                                     real names and email addresses.
 
   Sending:
     --envelope-sender       <str>  * Email envelope sender.
@@ -272,12 +274,14 @@ sub do_edit {
 my ($auto_8bit_encoding);
 my ($compose_encoding);
 my ($sendmail_cmd);
+my ($mailmap_file, $mailmap_blob);
 # Variables with corresponding config settings & hardcoded defaults
 my ($debug_net_smtp) = 0;		# Net::SMTP, see send_message()
 my $thread = 1;
 my $chain_reply_to = 0;
 my $use_xmailer = 1;
 my $validate = 1;
+my $mailmap = 0;
 my $target_xfer_encoding = 'auto';
 my $forbid_sendmail_variables = 1;
 
@@ -294,6 +298,7 @@ sub do_edit {
     "annotate" => \$annotate,
     "xmailer" => \$use_xmailer,
     "forbidsendmailvariables" => \$forbid_sendmail_variables,
+    "mailmap" => \$mailmap,
 );
 
 my %config_settings = (
@@ -327,6 +332,8 @@ sub do_edit {
 my %config_path_settings = (
     "aliasesfile" => \@alias_files,
     "smtpsslcertpath" => \$smtp_ssl_cert_path,
+    "mailmap.file" => \$mailmap_file,
+    "mailmap.blob" => \$mailmap_blob,
 );
 
 # Handle Uncouth Termination
@@ -524,6 +531,8 @@ sub config_regexp {
 		    "thread!" => \$thread,
 		    "validate!" => \$validate,
 		    "transfer-encoding=s" => \$target_xfer_encoding,
+		    "mailmap!" => \$mailmap,
+		    "use-mailmap!" => \$mailmap,
 		    "format-patch!" => \$format_patch,
 		    "8bit-encoding=s" => \$auto_8bit_encoding,
 		    "compose-encoding=s" => \$compose_encoding,
@@ -1085,6 +1094,16 @@ sub expand_one_alias {
 our ($message_id, %mail, $subject, $in_reply_to, $references, $message,
 	$needs_confirm, $message_num, $ask_default);
 
+sub mailmap_address_list {
+	return @_ unless @_ and $mailmap;
+	my @options = ();
+	push(@options, "--mailmap-file=$mailmap_file") if $mailmap_file;
+	push(@options, "--mailmap-blob=$mailmap_blob") if $mailmap_blob;
+	my @addr_list = Git::command('check-mailmap', @options, @_);
+	s/^<(.*)>$/$1/ for @addr_list;
+	return @addr_list;
+}
+
 sub extract_valid_address {
 	my $address = shift;
 	my $local_part_regexp = qr/[^<>"\s@]+/;
@@ -1294,6 +1313,7 @@ sub process_address_list {
 	@addr_list = expand_aliases(@addr_list);
 	@addr_list = sanitize_address_list(@addr_list);
 	@addr_list = validate_address_list(@addr_list);
+	@addr_list = mailmap_address_list(@addr_list);
 	return @addr_list;
 }
 
diff --git a/t/t9001-send-email.sh b/t/t9001-send-email.sh
index 64a4ab3736ef..4bdc793a53a2 100755
--- a/t/t9001-send-email.sh
+++ b/t/t9001-send-email.sh
@@ -2379,6 +2379,128 @@ test_expect_success $PREREQ 'leading and trailing whitespaces are removed' '
 	test_cmp expected-list actual-list
 '
 
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'mailmap support with --to' '
+	clean_fake_sendmail &&
+	test_config mailmap.file "mailmap.test" &&
+	cat >mailmap.test <<-EOF &&
+	Some Body <someone@example.com> <someone@example.org>
+	EOF
+	git format-patch --stdout -1 >a.patch &&
+	git send-email \
+		--from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
+		--smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \
+		--to=someone@example.org \
+		--mailmap \
+		a.patch \
+		2>errors >out &&
+	grep "^!someone@example\.com!$" commandline1
+'
+
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'sendemail.mailmap configuration' '
+	clean_fake_sendmail &&
+	test_config mailmap.file "mailmap.test" &&
+	test_config sendemail.mailmap "true" &&
+	cat >mailmap.test <<-EOF &&
+	Some Body <someone@example.com> <someone@example.org>
+	EOF
+	git format-patch --stdout -1 >a.patch &&
+	git send-email \
+		--from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
+		--smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \
+		--to=someone@example.org \
+		a.patch \
+		2>errors >out &&
+	grep "^!someone@example\.com!$" commandline1
+'
+
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'sendemail.mailmap.file configuration' '
+	clean_fake_sendmail &&
+	test_config sendemail.mailmap.file "mailmap.test" &&
+	test_config sendemail.mailmap "true" &&
+	cat >mailmap.test <<-EOF &&
+	Some Body <someone@example.com> <someone@example.org>
+	EOF
+	git format-patch --stdout -1 >a.patch &&
+	git send-email \
+		--from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
+		--smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \
+		--to=someone@example.org \
+		a.patch \
+		2>errors >out &&
+	grep "^!someone@example\.com!$" commandline1
+'
+
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'sendemail.mailmap identity overrides configuration' '
+	clean_fake_sendmail &&
+	test_config sendemail.cloud.mailmap.file "mailmap.test" &&
+	test_config sendemail.mailmap "false" &&
+	test_config sendemail.cloud.mailmap "true" &&
+	cat >mailmap.test <<-EOF &&
+	Some Body <someone@example.com> <someone@example.org>
+	EOF
+	git format-patch --stdout -1 >a.patch &&
+	git send-email \
+		--from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
+		--smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \
+		--identity=cloud \
+		--to=someone@example.org \
+		a.patch \
+		2>errors >out &&
+	grep "^!someone@example\.com!$" commandline1
+'
+
+test_expect_success $PREREQ '--no-mailmap overrides configuration' '
+	clean_fake_sendmail &&
+	test_config sendemail.cloud.mailmap.file "mailmap.test" &&
+	test_config sendemail.mailmap "false" &&
+	test_config sendemail.cloud.mailmap "true" &&
+	cat >mailmap.test <<-EOF &&
+	Some Body <someone@example.com> <someone@example.org>
+	EOF
+	git format-patch --stdout -1 >a.patch &&
+	git send-email \
+		--from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
+		--smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \
+		--identity=cloud \
+		--to=someone@example.org \
+		--no-mailmap \
+		a.patch \
+		2>errors >out &&
+	grep "^!someone@example\.org!$" commandline1
+'
+
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'mailmap support in To header' '
+	clean_fake_sendmail &&
+	test_config mailmap.file "mailmap.test" &&
+	cat >mailmap.test <<-EOF &&
+	<someone@example.com> <someone@example.org>
+	EOF
+	git format-patch --stdout -1 --to=someone@example.org >a.patch &&
+	git send-email \
+		--from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
+		--smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \
+		--mailmap \
+		a.patch \
+		2>errors >out &&
+	grep "^!someone@example\.com!$" commandline1
+'
+
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'mailmap support in Cc header' '
+	clean_fake_sendmail &&
+	test_config mailmap.file "mailmap.test" &&
+	cat >mailmap.test <<-EOF &&
+	<someone@example.com> <someone@example.org>
+	EOF
+	git format-patch --stdout -1 --cc=someone@example.org >a.patch &&
+	git send-email \
+		--from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
+		--smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \
+		--mailmap \
+		a.patch \
+		2>errors >out &&
+	grep "^!someone@example\.com!$" commandline1
+'
+
 test_expect_success $PREREQ 'test using command name with --sendmail-cmd' '
 	clean_fake_sendmail &&
 	PATH="$PWD:$PATH" \
-- 
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