# [PATCH] git-send-email: allow an email alias for --from

2 messages from 2007-07-05 to 2007-07-06. Participants: Michael Hendricks, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/8874

## Michael Hendricks, 2007-07-05 01:11

Subject: [PATCH] git-send-email: allow an email alias for --from
Message-ID: <11835978963177-git-send-email-michael@ndrix.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/11835978963177-git-send-email-michael%40ndrix.org

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Signed-off-by: Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>
---

I don't like seeing all the output and confirming the From address
when I don't specify --from.  Since I have aliases for my own email
addresses, this is easier than always typing out the full address.

It also does what I would expect since every other email address can
be specified as an alias.  Why not From also?

 git-send-email.perl |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 87f59fa..89f7c36 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -254,6 +254,8 @@ if (@alias_files and $aliasfiletype and defined $parse_alias{$aliasfiletype}) {
 	}
 }
 
+($from) = expand_aliases($from) if defined $from;
+
 my $prompting = 0;
 if (!defined $from) {
 	$from = $author || $committer;
-- 
1.5.3.rc0.14.gebe8f

```

## Junio C Hamano, 2007-07-06 05:43

Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: allow an email alias for --from
Message-ID: <7v8x9ugk95.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7v8x9ugk95.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net
In-Reply-To: <11835978963177-git-send-email-michael@ndrix.org>

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This sounds sane.  List?

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