[PATCH v2] git-send-email: die if sendmail.* config is set

[Drew DeVault <sir@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've seen several people mis-configure git send-email on their first
attempt because they set the sendmail.* config options - not
sendemail.*. This patch detects this mistake and bails out with a
friendly warning.

Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/config/sendemail.txt |  5 +++++
 git-send-email.perl                |  8 ++++++++
 perl/Git.pm                        | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 39 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt b/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt
index 0006faf800..1726d5f85e 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt
@@ -61,3 +61,8 @@ sendemail.smtpBatchSize::
 sendemail.smtpReloginDelay::
 	Seconds wait before reconnecting to smtp server.
 	See also the `--relogin-delay` option of linkgit:git-send-email[1].
+
+sendemail.forceSendmailVariables::
+	To avoid common misconfiguration mistakes, linkgit:git-send-email[1]
+	will abort with a warning if any configuration options for "sendmail"
+	exist. Set this variable to bypass the check.
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 36c47bae1d..1b186bc058 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ sub do_edit {
 my $use_xmailer = 1;
 my $validate = 1;
 my $target_xfer_encoding = 'auto';
+my $forbid_sendmail_variables = 1;
 
 my %config_bool_settings = (
     "thread" => \$thread,
@@ -263,6 +264,7 @@ sub do_edit {
     "multiedit" => \$multiedit,
     "annotate" => \$annotate,
     "xmailer" => \$use_xmailer,
+    "forbidsendmailvariables" => \$forbid_sendmail_variables,
 );
 
 my %config_settings = (
@@ -478,6 +480,12 @@ sub read_config {
     usage();
 }
 
+if ($forbid_sendmail_variables && (scalar Git::config_regexp("sendmail.*")) != 0) {
+	die __("fatal: found configuration options for 'sendmail'\n" .
+		"git-send-email is configured with the sendemail.* options - note the 'e'.\n" .
+		"Set sendemail.forbidSendmailVariables to false to disable this check.\n");
+}
+
 die __("Cannot run git format-patch from outside a repository\n")
 	if $format_patch and not $repo;
 
diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm
index 54c9ed0dde..10df990959 100644
--- a/perl/Git.pm
+++ b/perl/Git.pm
@@ -723,6 +723,32 @@ sub config_int {
 	return scalar _config_common({'kind' => '--int'}, @_);
 }
 
+=item config_regexp ( RE )
+
+Retrieve the list of configuration key names matching the regular
+expression C<RE>. The return value is a list of strings matching
+this regex.
+
+=cut
+
+sub config_regexp {
+	my ($self, $regex) = _maybe_self(@_);
+	try {
+		my @cmd = ('config', '--name-only', '--get-regexp', $regex);
+		unshift @cmd, $self if $self;
+		my @matches = command(@cmd);
+		return @matches;
+	} catch Git::Error::Command with {
+		my $E = shift;
+		if ($E->value() == 1) {
+			my @matches = ();
+			return @matches;
+		} else {
+			throw $E;
+		}
+	};
+}
+
 # Common subroutine to implement bulk of what the config* family of methods
 # do. This currently wraps command('config') so it is not so fast.
 sub _config_common {
-- 
2.27.0