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[PATCH v2] send-email: Add simple email aliases format

From
Allen Hubbe <allenbh@gmail.com>
Date
May 22, 2015, 00:16 UTC
Message-ID
<4b56f6ab3c14aff7752804d11917b1f330f55f40.1432252898.git.allenbh@gmail.com>

This format is more simple than the other alias file formats, so it may be preferred by some users. The format is as follows.

<alias>: <address|alias>[, <address|alias>...]
Aliases are specified one per line.  There is no line splitting.
Example:
	alice: Alice W Land <awol@example.com>
	bob: Robert Bobbyton <bob@example.com>
	chloe: chloe@example.com
	abgroup: alice, bob
	bcgrp: bob, chloe, Other <o@example.com>
Signed-off-by: Allen Hubbe <allenbh@gmail.com>
---
Notes:
    The v1 of this patch had the following subject line:
    git-send-email.perl: Add sendmail aliases support
    
    This v2 renames this email alias format to simple, because the syntax
    that is actually supported by the parser differs from the format used by
    sendmail.  Now, there is no mention of sendmail in the name of the
    format, the documentation, or the commit message.
    
    This v2 also adds a test case to t/t9001-send-email.sh, and updates the
    list of alias file types in Documentation/git-send-email.txt.
 Documentation/git-send-email.txt |  2 +-
 git-send-email.perl              |  6 +++++-
 t/t9001-send-email.sh            | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 804554609def..99583c4f8969 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ sendemail.aliasesFile::
 
 sendemail.aliasFileType::
 	Format of the file(s) specified in sendemail.aliasesFile. Must be
-	one of 'mutt', 'mailrc', 'pine', 'elm', or 'gnus'.
+	one of 'mutt', 'mailrc', 'pine', 'elm', 'gnus', or 'simple'.
 
 sendemail.multiEdit::
 	If true (default), a single editor instance will be spawned to edit
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index e1e9b1460ced..25d72e8db8bf 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -515,7 +515,11 @@ my %parse_alias = (
 			       $aliases{$alias} = [ split_addrs($addr) ];
 			  }
 		      } },
-
+	simple => sub { my $fh = shift; while (<$fh>) {
+		if (/^\s*(\S+)\s*:\s*(.+)$/) {
+			my ($alias, $addr) = ($1, $2);
+			$aliases{$alias} = [ split_addrs($addr) ];
+		}}},
 	gnus => sub { my $fh = shift; while (<$fh>) {
 		if (/\(define-mail-alias\s+"(\S+?)"\s+"(\S+?)"\)/) {
 			$aliases{$1} = [ $2 ];
diff --git a/t/t9001-send-email.sh b/t/t9001-send-email.sh
index 7be14a4e37f7..bbb73cdf8bec 100755
--- a/t/t9001-send-email.sh
+++ b/t/t9001-send-email.sh
@@ -1548,6 +1548,30 @@ test_expect_success $PREREQ 'sendemail.aliasfile=~/.mailrc' '
 		2>errors >out &&
 	grep "^!someone@example\.org!$" commandline1
 '
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'sendemail.aliasfiletype=simple' '
+	clean_fake_sendmail && rm -fr outdir &&
+	git format-patch -1 -o outdir &&
+	{
+		echo "alice: Alice W Land <awol@example.com>"
+		echo "bob: Robert Bobbyton <bob@example.com>"
+		echo "chloe: chloe@example.com"
+		echo "abgroup: alice, bob"
+		echo "bcgrp: bob, chloe, Other <o@example.com>"
+	} >~/.tmp-email-aliases &&
+	git config --replace-all sendemail.aliasesfile \
+		"$(pwd)/.tmp-email-aliases" &&
+	git config sendemail.aliasfiletype simple &&
+	git send-email \
+		--from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
+		--to=alice --to=bcgrp \
+		--smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \
+		outdir/0001-*.patch \
+		2>errors >out &&
+	grep "^!awol@example\.com!$" commandline1 &&
+	grep "^!bob@example\.com!$" commandline1 &&
+	grep "^!chloe@example\.com!$" commandline1 &&
+	grep "^!o@example\.com!$" commandline1
+'
 
 do_xmailer_test () {
 	expected=$1 params=$2 &&
-- 
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