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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-06-16 14:27:04 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-06-16 14:27:04 -0700
commit412e63f0fd683addc380f9c65d05306bd2027039 (patch)
treee5a69aa52a54aa3cc180d07ad5bd5d47edcd0f45 /Documentation
parentSecond half of seventh batch (diff)
parentt9001: write $HOME/, not ~/, to help shells without tilde expansion (diff)
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Merge branch 'ah/send-email-sendmail-alias'
"git send-email" learned the alias file format used by the sendmail program (in an abbreviated form). * ah/send-email-sendmail-alias: t9001: write $HOME/, not ~/, to help shells without tilde expansion send-email: add sendmail email aliases format
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 804554609d..b48a764320 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -383,7 +383,23 @@ sendemail.aliasesFile::
sendemail.aliasFileType::
Format of the file(s) specified in sendemail.aliasesFile. Must be
- one of 'mutt', 'mailrc', 'pine', 'elm', or 'gnus'.
+ one of 'mutt', 'mailrc', 'pine', 'elm', or 'gnus', or 'sendmail'.
++
+What an alias file in each format looks like can be found in
+the documentation of the email program of the same name. The
+differences and limitations from the standard formats are
+described below:
++
+--
+sendmail;;
+* Quoted aliases and quoted addresses are not supported: lines that
+ contain a `"` symbol are ignored.
+* Line continuations are not supported: lines that start with
+ whitespace characters, or end with a `\` symbol are ignored.
+* Warnings are printed on the standard error output for any
+ explicitly unsupported constructs, and any other lines that are not
+ recognized by the parser.
+--
sendemail.multiEdit::
If true (default), a single editor instance will be spawned to edit