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

From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 11, 2012, 16:25 UTC
Message-ID: <CABPQNSaLtdGVfdkQyRFn4_Ze84zGVuvPwxTpr3hY8uDc0WU2Zg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v4nqh96z5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Well, I've always been slightly annoyed by the "send-mail" vs
>> "sendemail" inconsistency.
>
> Hrm, isn't it between "sendmail" (as in /usr/lib/sendmail) and
> "send-email" (a subcommand of git)?
>

Ugh, you are right. My brain must have been defective :)

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>> Perhaps we could do something along these
>> lines (plus all documentation-updates, omitted for clarity) to reduce
>> the risk of confusion?
>
> Assuming that the contrast between "sendmail" and "git send-email"
> is what you are trying to address, I fail to see how it would help
> reducing the confusion if you start naming configuration variables
> used by "git send-email" without E.
>

No, this was just me being a moron.

> If the proposal were to give "send-email.$var" synomyms to
> corresponding "sendemail.$var" variables, I would have been
> persuaded to believe it may alleviate potential confusion, though.

This was really the way I wanted to go, but I somehow got unsure about the legality of the dashes in config sections. I'm a bit skeptical to introducing new non-letter characters if we don't have to.

So let's just drop my suggestion. I wasn't thinking straight.