Re: git-send-email: smtpserver in $HOME

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 16, 2021, 19:23 UTC
Message-ID: <YCwbsKIKNHTMJJHQ@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy2fnq0vx.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 11:16:18AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > Sure, but you cannot say "does it refer to a local file" for a
> > non-absolute path.
> 
> Hmph, why not?  I would expect that this would work as a valid way
> 
> 	$ git send-email --smtp-server=./my-phoney-smtp
> 
> to test a server substitute (perhaps for testing).  The only reason
> why it does not is because file_name_is_absolute() check would not
> like it.

Ah, sure. But you cannot say "my-phoney-smtp" and find it in the PATH, because it is syntactically indistinguishable from a host with the same name.

-Peff