On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Well, I've always been slightly annoyed by the "send-mail" vs >> "sendemail" inconsistency. > > Hrm, isn't it between "sendmail" (as in /usr/lib/sendmail) and > "send-email" (a subcommand of git)? > Ugh, you are right. My brain must have been defective :) >> Perhaps we could do something along these >> lines (plus all documentation-updates, omitted for clarity) to reduce >> the risk of confusion? > > Assuming that the contrast between "sendmail" and "git send-email" > is what you are trying to address, I fail to see how it would help > reducing the confusion if you start naming configuration variables > used by "git send-email" without E. > No, this was just me being a moron. > If the proposal were to give "send-email.$var" synomyms to > corresponding "sendemail.$var" variables, I would have been > persuaded to believe it may alleviate potential confusion, though. This was really the way I wanted to go, but I somehow got unsure about the legality of the dashes in config sections. I'm a bit skeptical to introducing new non-letter characters if we don't have to. So let's just drop my suggestion. I wasn't thinking straight. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html