Problem with git send-email and --reply-to
3 messages between Apr 24, 2026 and Apr 24, 2026, from Christian König, Ramsay Jones, Tian Yuchen.
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Hello everybody,
either I've found a bug or there is something absolutely not obvious going on here with git send-email.
I want to use the --reply-to option with git send-email to make sure that people reply to my AMD mail address and not my gmail address used for sending mails.
When I use the option on the command line it works fine, but when I put that into my .gitconfig it doesn't seem to have any effect.
Any idea what could be wrong here?
.gitconfig looks like this:
[user]
name = Christian König
email = christian.koenig@amd.com
[sendemail]
reply-to = christian.koenig@amd.com
Thanks in advance, Christian.
Re: Problem with git send-email and --reply-to
On 24/04/2026 2:13 pm, Christian König wrote:
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> Hello everybody,
>
> either I've found a bug or there is something absolutely not obvious going on here with git send-email.
>
> I want to use the --reply-to option with git send-email to make sure that people reply to my AMD mail address and not my gmail address used for sending mails.
>
> When I use the option on the command line it works fine, but when I put that into my .gitconfig it doesn't seem to have any effect.
>
> Any idea what could be wrong here?
>
> .gitconfig looks like this:
>
> [user]
> name = Christian König
> email = christian.koenig@amd.com
> [sendemail]
> reply-to = christian.koenig@amd.com
I don't think this is a valid config variable. It is not mentioned in the man page. In the source, it is noted as '# Variables we fill in automatically, or via prompting:' in addition to being part of the command-line '%options' map. So, ...
Sorry not to be of more help.
ATB, Ramsay Jones
Re: Problem with git send-email and --reply-to
On 4/24/26 21:13, Christian König wrote:
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> Hello everybody,
>
> either I've found a bug or there is something absolutely not obvious going on here with git send-email.
>
> I want to use the --reply-to option with git send-email to make sure that people reply to my AMD mail address and not my gmail address used for sending mails.
>
> When I use the option on the command line it works fine, but when I put that into my .gitconfig it doesn't seem to have any effect.
>
> Any idea what could be wrong here?
>
> .gitconfig looks like this:
>
> [user]
> name = Christian König
> email = christian.koenig@amd.com
> [sendemail]
> reply-to = christian.koenig@amd.com
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Christian.
The most straightforward solution might be:
[format]
headers = "Reply-To: christian.koenig@amd.com"This is equivalent to manually adding this line at the beginning of the email. In most cases, there shouldn’t be any problems, I guess?
Thanks, Yuchen