I have a setup where I normally send patches through my ISP, which
requires authentication, so I have sendemail.smtpuser=me and
sendemail.smtpserverport=587 set in my ~/.gitconfig (among others). But
for one project I work on, I am required to send patches through an
alternate SMTP server that does not require authentication.
At first, I thought it would be a simple matter to use git config to
create an alias, where the explicit command line requests would override
the global ~/.gitconfig settings:
[alias]
submit = send-email --smtp-user= --smtp-server=alternate \
--smtp-server-port=25
But that fails with:
$ git submit -1
fatal: unrecognized argument: --smtp-user=
format-patch -o /tmp/JgTFO8Rq3v -1 --smtp-user=: command returned error: 128
In other words, git-send-email didn't recognize the empty --smtp-user=
command as an override request, and instead passed it on to
git-format-patch which croaks.
So I ended up creating this hairy alias instead:
[alias]
submit = "!sh -c 'git config --global --unset sendemail.smtpuser; git
send-email --smtp-server=alternate --smtp-server-port=25 \"$@\"; st=$?;
git config --global sendemail.smtpuser me; (exit $st)' sh"
I suppose I could have used a shell function for fewer forks:
[alias]
submit = "!doit() { git config --global --unset sendemail.smtpuser; git
send-email --smtp-server=alternate --smtp-server-port=25 \"$@\"; st=$?;
git config --global sendemail.smtpuser me; return $st; }; doit"
But both of those are rather unappealing. Is there a better approach to
accomplishing what I wanted?
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Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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