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[PATCH 1/2] send-email: remove non-working support for "sendemail.smtpssl"

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 11, 2021, 14:43 UTC
Message-ID
<patch-1.2-ee041188e55-20210411T144128Z-avarab@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<cover-0.2-00000000000-20210411T144128Z-avarab@gmail.com>

Remove the already dead code to support "sendemail.smtssl" by finally removing the dead code supporting the configuration option.

In f6bebd121ac (git-send-email: add support for TLS via Net::SMTP::SSL, 2008-06-25) the --smtp-ssl command-line option was documented as deprecated, later in 65180c66186 (List send-email config options in config.txt., 2009-07-22) the "sendemail.smtpssl" configuration option was also documented as such.

Then in in 3ff15040e22 (send-email: fix regression in sendemail.identity parsing, 2019-05-17) I unintentionally removed support for it by introducing a bug in read_config().

As can be seen from the diff context we've already returned unless $enc i defined, so it's not possible for us to reach the "elsif" branch here. This code was therefore already dead since Git v2.23.0.

So let's just remove it instead of fixing the bug, clearly nobody's cared enough to complain.

The --smtp-ssl option is still deprecated, if someone cares they can follow-up and remove that too, but unlike the config option that one could still be in use in the wild. I'm just removing this code that's provably unused already.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/config/sendemail.txt | 3 ---
 git-send-email.perl                | 6 +-----
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt b/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt
index cbc5af42fdf..50baa5d6bfb 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt
@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@ sendemail.smtpEncryption::
 	See linkgit:git-send-email[1] for description.  Note that this
 	setting is not subject to the 'identity' mechanism.
 
-sendemail.smtpssl (deprecated)::
-	Deprecated alias for 'sendemail.smtpEncryption = ssl'.
-
 sendemail.smtpsslcertpath::
 	Path to ca-certificates (either a directory or a single file).
 	Set it to an empty string to disable certificate verification.
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index f5bbf1647e3..877c7dd1a21 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -374,11 +374,7 @@ sub read_config {
 		my $enc = Git::config(@repo, $setting);
 		return unless defined $enc;
 		return if $configured->{$setting}++;
-		if (defined $enc) {
-			$smtp_encryption = $enc;
-		} elsif (Git::config_bool(@repo, "$prefix.smtpssl")) {
-			$smtp_encryption = 'ssl';
-		}
+		$smtp_encryption = $enc;
 	}
 }
 
-- 
2.31.1.623.g88b15a793d
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  1. 0/3 git-send-email: improve SSL configurationDrew DeVault, Apr 11, 2021
  2. 1/3 git-send-email(1): improve smtp-encryption docsDrew DeVault, Apr 11, 2021
  3. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 11, 2021
  4. 2/3 git-send-email: die on invalid smtp_encryptionDrew DeVault, Apr 11, 2021
  5. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 11, 2021
  6. Drew DeVaultApr 11, 2021
  7. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 11, 2021
  8. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 11, 2021
  9. Drew DeVaultApr 11, 2021
  10. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 11, 2021
  11. Drew DeVaultApr 12, 2021
  12. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 12, 2021
  13. Drew DeVaultApr 13, 2021
  14. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 13, 2021
  15. Junio C HamanoApr 13, 2021
  16. 3/3 git-send-email: rename 'tls' to 'starttls'Drew DeVault, Apr 11, 2021
  17. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 11, 2021
  18. Drew DeVaultApr 11, 2021
  19. 0/2 send-email: simplify smtp.{smtpssl,smtpencryption} parsingÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 11, 2021
  20. 1/2 send-email: remove non-working support for "sendemail.smtpssl"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 11, 2021
  21. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2021
  22. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 11, 2021
  23. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 1, 2021
  24. 2/2 send-email: refactor sendemail.smtpencryption config parsingÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 11, 2021

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