Re: Problem with git send-email and --reply-to
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Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
- Date
- Apr 24, 2026, 13:42 UTC
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- <cb3bcb25-ed95-40ec-a924-c9924a025c87@ramsayjones.plus.com>
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On 24/04/2026 2:13 pm, Christian König wrote:
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> Hello everybody, > > either I've found a bug or there is something absolutely not obvious going on here with git send-email. > > I want to use the --reply-to option with git send-email to make sure that people reply to my AMD mail address and not my gmail address used for sending mails. > > When I use the option on the command line it works fine, but when I put that into my .gitconfig it doesn't seem to have any effect. > > Any idea what could be wrong here? > > .gitconfig looks like this: > > [user] > name = Christian König > email = christian.koenig@amd.com > [sendemail] > reply-to = christian.koenig@amd.com
I don't think this is a valid config variable. It is not mentioned in the man page. In the source, it is noted as '# Variables we fill in automatically, or via prompting:' in addition to being part of the command-line '%options' map. So, ...
Sorry not to be of more help.
ATB, Ramsay Jones