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| author |  Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> | 2015-05-31 18:29:23 -0400 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-06-01 15:52:33 -0700 |
| commit | 5c3494ed880b56eb2e487fd5504bc66674151bae (patch) | |
| tree | febc4d87bcfe5238c09a7d8ac530197ac5c30f42 /Documentation | |
| parent | t9001: write $HOME/, not ~/, to help shells without tilde expansion (diff) | |
| download | tgif-5c3494ed880b56eb2e487fd5504bc66674151bae.tar.xz | |
send-email: further document missing sendmail aliases functionality
Sendmail aliases[1] supports expansion to a file ("/path/name") or
pipe ("|command"), as well as file inclusion (":include: /path/name"),
however, our implementation does not support such functionality.
[1]: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=aliases&sektion=5
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index b48a764320..e6d466e9a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -396,6 +396,9 @@ sendmail;; contain a `"` symbol are ignored. * Line continuations are not supported: lines that start with whitespace characters, or end with a `\` symbol are ignored. +* Redirection to a file (`/path/name`) or pipe (`|command`) is not + supported. +* File inclusion (`:include: /path/name`) is not supported. * Warnings are printed on the standard error output for any explicitly unsupported constructs, and any other lines that are not recognized by the parser. |