git-send-email: bug with sendemail.multiedit

> I think there is a bug with git-send-email.perl's evaluation of the
> sendemail.multiedit config variable.
> 
> I was only able to make the "do_edit()" function detect it as false by
> setting the variable to "0" instead of "false", like so:

> On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 02:09:30PM -0500, Jean-Francois Dagenais wrote:
>
>> I think there is a bug with git-send-email.perl's evaluation of the
>> sendemail.multiedit config variable.
>> 
>> I was only able to make the "do_edit()" function detect it as false by
>> setting the variable to "0" instead of "false", like so:
>
> I think it's this:
>
> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] send-email: multiedit is a boolean config option
>
> The sendemail.multiedit variable is meant to be a boolean.
> However, it is not marked as such in the code, which means
> we store its value literally. Thus in the do_edit function,
> perl ends up coercing it to a boolean value according to
> perl rules, not git rules. This works for "0", but "false",
> "no", or "off" will erroneously be interpreted as true.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---

>  git-send-email.perl |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> index d491db9..ef30c55 100755
> --- a/git-send-email.perl
> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
> @@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ my %config_bool_settings = (
>      "signedoffbycc" => [\$signed_off_by_cc, undef],
>      "signedoffcc" => [\$signed_off_by_cc, undef],      # Deprecated
>      "validate" => [\$validate, 1],
> +    "multiedit" => [\$multiedit, undef]
>  );
>  
>  my %config_settings = (
> @@ -227,7 +228,6 @@ my %config_settings = (
>      "bcc" => \@bcclist,
>      "suppresscc" => \@suppress_cc,
>      "envelopesender" => \$envelope_sender,
> -    "multiedit" => \$multiedit,
>      "confirm"   => \$confirm,
>      "from" => \$sender,
>      "assume8bitencoding" => \$auto_8bit_encoding,

> On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 02:09:30PM -0500, Jean-Francois Dagenais wrote:
> 
>> I think there is a bug with git-send-email.perl's evaluation of the
>> sendemail.multiedit config variable.
>> 
>> I was only able to make the "do_edit()" function detect it as false by
>> setting the variable to "0" instead of "false", like so:
> 
> I think it's this:
> 
> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] send-email: multiedit is a boolean config option
> 
> The sendemail.multiedit variable is meant to be a boolean.
> However, it is not marked as such in the code, which means
> we store its value literally. Thus in the do_edit function,
> perl ends up coercing it to a boolean value according to
> perl rules, not git rules. This works for "0", but "false",
> "no", or "off" will erroneously be interpreted as true.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>

> ---
> git-send-email.perl |    2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> index d491db9..ef30c55 100755
> --- a/git-send-email.perl
> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
> @@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ my %config_bool_settings = (
>     "signedoffbycc" => [\$signed_off_by_cc, undef],
>     "signedoffcc" => [\$signed_off_by_cc, undef],      # Deprecated
>     "validate" => [\$validate, 1],
> +    "multiedit" => [\$multiedit, undef]
> );
> 
> my %config_settings = (
> @@ -227,7 +228,6 @@ my %config_settings = (
>     "bcc" => \@bcclist,
>     "suppresscc" => \@suppress_cc,
>     "envelopesender" => \$envelope_sender,
> -    "multiedit" => \$multiedit,
>     "confirm"   => \$confirm,
>     "from" => \$sender,
>     "assume8bitencoding" => \$auto_8bit_encoding,
> -- 
> 1.7.8
> 

> Bonjour Pierre! ... and all git developers!
>
> I think there is a bug with git-send-email.perl's evaluation of the sendemail.multiedit config variable.
>
> I was only able to make the "do_edit()" function detect it as false by setting the variable to "0" instead
> of "false", like so:
>
> git config --global sendemail.multiedit 0
>
> otherwise do_edit evaluates it as true and invokes the editor with all files as argument.