Adam WilliamsonThe git-send-email documentation was never updated to reflect the change made in 01645b74 to use the SSL library's default CA trust store rather than /etc/ssl/certs as a hardcoded default CApath. This corrects that, and also tweaks the rest of the text a bit to explain more accurately what is required for a valid CApath / CAfile.
Signed-off-by: Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com> --- Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index a60776e..30f7afa 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -199,10 +199,15 @@ must be used for each option. Legacy alias for '--smtp-encryption ssl'. --smtp-ssl-cert-path:: - Path to ca-certificates (either a directory or a single file). - Set it to an empty string to disable certificate verification. - Defaults to the value set to the 'sendemail.smtpsslcertpath' - configuration variable, if set, or `/etc/ssl/certs` otherwise. + Path to a store of trusted CA certificates for SMTP SSL/TLS + certificate validation (either a directory that has been processed + by 'c_rehash', or a single file containing one or more PEM format + certificates concatenated together: see verify(1) -CAfile and + -CApath for more information on these). Set it to an empty string + to disable certificate verification. Defaults to the value of the + 'sendemail.smtpsslcertpath' configuration variable, if set, or the + backing SSL library's compiled-in default otherwise (which should + be the best choice on most platforms). --smtp-user=<user>:: Username for SMTP-AUTH. Default is the value of 'sendemail.smtpuser';
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