Re: [RFC] E-mail aliases

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 12, 2006, 22:36 UTC
Message-ID: <b0943d9e0612121436u6cf7c200i92ba056103a80b13@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vvekhufib.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 12/12/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > sets the "To:" header to "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org".
> >
> > The aliases are read from the [aliases] section in the gitconfig files
> > ("git repo-config aliases.lkml" in this case). I just want to make
> > sure than there isn't any other intended use for the [aliases] section
> > in the config files.
>
> [alias] is used to hold command-line alias, and it seems
> slightly confusing to have two sections that mean something
> quite different.

Didn't know about [alias]. It is indeed confusing to have [aliases] as well.

> Perhaps
>
> [mail "alias"]
>         lkml = linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

The other option would be to teach stgit to parse alias files used by mutt etc. as Eric mentioned in the other e-mail (and it doesn't look difficult). The problem is that you would need to know how to generate them manually if you use other e-mail clients or web-based services.

> if we are going to have other mail-related configurations that
> might turn out be handy.  send-email would want smtp-server in
> there, for example.

At a quick look, it seems that git-send-email already uses a [sendemail] section. StGIT currently reads the smtpserver and authentication information from the [stgit] section.