Hello everyone,
I was doing some tests on 'git send-email'[1] and noticed a couple of things:
1. We are not able to send attachments via 'git send-email' unlike
various other mail clients such as GMail, Yahoo, etc. Is there
any particular reason for this (maybe performance issues or code
compatibility issues etc.)?
2. Even so, I tried sending an image to myself and noticed that the
command basically does not check if we are sending a text file or
not(though I think it should unless there is any key reason behind it).
On executing the command(when trying to send an image), it asks for the
encoding (that was odd as it did not ask for any of emails I have sent
using the command). I entered the command:
'git send-email --to=shouryashukla.oo@xxxxxxxxx --subject=test_mail me.JPG'
which prompts:
'The following files are 8bit, but do not declare a Content-Transfer-Encoding.'
'me.JPG'
'Which 8bit encoding should I declare [UTF-8]?'
So i enter the encoding as '8BIT', which at the end prompts:
'No subject line in me.JPG? at /usr/lib/git-core/git-send-email line 687.'
Why is this happening even though I entered the subject in the command itself?
3. I looked up at the script of the command and noticed that there are two files,
namely: 'git-send-email.perl' and 'git-send-email', both are identical except for
an extra 'use lib (split(/:/, $ENV{GITPERLLIB} || '/home/<<username>>/share/perl5'));'
on line 3 of 'git-send-email'(my inference is that we are trying to import the perl
library by splitting the addresses at '/' or something similar). What is the purpose
of the latter file?(I am new to Perl, if I am missing out on anything please forgive
my ignorance).
On an additional note, I noticed that there is a test file called 't9001-send-email.sh' which needs
various style modernisations and maybe other changes too(I glanced at the file so I might have missed
out on other improvements which could be made). ;-)
I would love to hear from the community what exactly is going on and if any improvements are possible in the command. :-)
Regards,
Shourya Shukla
[1]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email
