From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:47:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-send-email.perl: expand filename of aliasesfile
Message-ID: <vpqty7wk9km.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20110928144057.GC12586@laptop>

Cord Seele <cowose@googlemail.com> writes:

> On Wed 28 Sep 2011 15:42:01 +0200, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>> That'd be cleaner to use
>> 
>> git config --path sendemail.aliasesfile
>> 
>> to let Git do the right expansion, in a way consistant with other places
>> of Git.
>
> This means to expand it at 'git config' time?

Yes, but not the "git config" ran to set the value. The one ran
internally by "git send-email" through Git::config(). You may add --get
to my command line above.

> Wouldn't it be nicer to have it expanded when you run 'git
> send-email'? Then you could move your ~/.gitconfig (that's where I
> have my aliasesfile configured) between different accounts and it
> could still work.

That works with my proposal.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/