# FEATURE REQUEST: sendemail.aliasesfile support enavironment variables and tilde

2 messages from 2010-03-12 to 2010-03-13. Participants: Jari Aalto, Jeff King.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/23001

## Jari Aalto, 2010-03-12 19:06

Subject: FEATURE REQUEST: sendemail.aliasesfile support enavironment variables and tilde
Message-ID: <87zl2dtl5g.fsf@jondo.cante.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87zl2dtl5g.fsf%40jondo.cante.net

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It apperas that this is not possible with 1.7.0:

    # ~/.gitconfig
    [sendemail]
            aliasesfile = $HOME/.mailrc

=> opening $HOME/.mailrc: No such file or directory
ls -la $HOME/.mailrc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2008-05-31 11:08 /home/foo/.mailrc -> vc/git/shell-account-common/.mailrc


Neither seems to be "~/.mailrc" accpeted. Please add support for at
least tilde(~).

Jari

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## Jeff King, 2010-03-13 07:40

Subject: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: sendemail.aliasesfile support enavironment variables and tilde
Message-ID: <20100313074031.GA5467@sigill.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100313074031.GA5467%40sigill.intra.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <87zl2dtl5g.fsf@jondo.cante.net>

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On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 09:06:19PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:

> It apperas that this is not possible with 1.7.0:
> 
>     # ~/.gitconfig
>     [sendemail]
>             aliasesfile = $HOME/.mailrc
> 
> => opening $HOME/.mailrc: No such file or directory
> ls -la $HOME/.mailrc
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2008-05-31 11:08 /home/foo/.mailrc -> vc/git/shell-account-common/.mailrc
> 
> Neither seems to be "~/.mailrc" accpeted. Please add support for at
> least tilde(~).

If you (or anyone) are interested in writing the patch, it is as simple
as adding "--path" to the "git config" call for sendemail.aliasesfile.
Which unfortunately is not that simple, due to the way that sendemail
handles its config values, but the refactoring should not be too hard.

-Peff

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