Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: allow overriding smtp-encryption config to 'none'

From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 18, 2012, 05:27 UTC
Message-ID: <CAN8TOE-vek=ooq4DRcNF0iCg+rJMt6SUhMi4+_dOWaRJ44KLLA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120216004903.GA21170@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> Ah, I see. I misunderstood the original problem you were trying to solve
> (I thought your example was "see? Encryption is off, so the server won't
> do AUTH, demonstrating that the patch works.").

Yeah, I got a little bit off track on what my actual goal was...

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> Overriding the smtp user from the config is a separate issue, and I
> don't think that is currently possible. The usual way to spell an option
> like that in git is "--no-smtp-user", but it seems that we use perl's
> GetOptions, which does not understand that syntax. So you'd have to add
> a "--no-smtp-user" by hand.

I think the "--no-smtp-user" is what I really wanted. I've written a different patch that actually targets the user name properly, but I've also found a current solution that can work for scripting purposes: just redirect the $GIT_CONFIG environment variable to /dev/null temporarily. Perhaps I'll send my new patch sometime, but it's not pressing and I'm not sure what kind of use it would actually get.

Thanks for the pointers.

Brian