On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 11:16:18AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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. Ah, sure. But you cannot say "my-phoney-smtp" and find it in the PATH, because it is syntactically indistinguishable from a host with the same name. -Peff
