Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Sure, but you cannot say "does it refer to a local file" for a > non-absolute path. Hmph, why not? I would expect that this would work as a valid way $ git send-email --smtp-server=./my-phoney-smtp to test a server substitute (perhaps for testing). The only reason why it does not is because file_name_is_absolute() check would not like it. > And that is the source of the problem, IMHO: there is > no way to signal "this is a command I expect to be executed" except by > using an absolute path. Yes. > Or do you mean that we should see if $smtp_server exists in the PATH, > and if so prefer it over a network hostname? We can certainly go in that direction, too. A new --smtp-program option would be a cleaner way to solve it, though, as you said elsewhere.
