Drew DeVault <sir@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. I am not sure if it is clear to readers what kind of forcing this refers to. At least it is not clear to me. > 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 $forbid_sendmail_variables = 1; Ah, probably s/force/forbid/ in the documentation above? OK, then it makes sense. > > my %config_bool_settings = ( > "thread" => \$thread, > @@ -263,6 +264,7 @@ sub do_edit { > "multiedit" => \$multiedit, > "annotate" => \$annotate, > "xmailer" => \$use_xmailer, > + "forbidsendmailvariables" => \$forbid_sendmail_variables, > ); > > my %config_settings = ( > @@ -478,6 +480,12 @@ sub read_config { > usage(); > } > > +if ($forbid_sendmail_variables && (scalar Git::config_regexp("sendmail.*")) != 0) { Judging from the way you wrote the "config_regexp" helper function, the above regexp matches "sendmailer.foo", "sendmailed.bar", etc., I would think, which probably is not what you intended. I guess we can write "sendmail[.].*" or "sendmail\\..*" to ensure that we are talking about (literally) "sendmail." followed by anything? > + 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"); > +} OK. Other than the two minor nits, looking quite good. Thanks. > 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 {