The b4 program has its own "b4 send" utility for sending a patch series. It
is similar in many respects to git send-email. Currently, it lacks support
for processing aliases, which makes switching between git send-email and b4
send somewhat annoying.
It would be convenient if b4 (or other programs interacting with git) could
make use of git send-email's alias file support.
Teach git send-email a new --translate-aliases option, which enables a new
mode to interpret all remaining arguments as email aliases, translating
them according to the configured alias file. Output the translated email
addresses one per line.
I also considered implementing a new "full" format for --dump-aliases which
would dump the entire alias file along with its configured email addresses.
I ended up dropping that change as I felt that it would be less usable than
the translation feature.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx>
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Jacob Keller (3):
t90001-send-email.sh: fix quoting for mailrc --dump-aliases test
t9001-send-email.sh: update alias list used for pine test
send-email: teach git send-email option to translate aliases
Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 7 +++
git-send-email.perl | 17 ++++++-
t/t9001-send-email.sh | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
3 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 406f326d271e0bacecdb00425422c5fa3f314930
change-id: 20240808-jk-translate-alias-send-email-1ce048643e5d
Best regards,
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Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx>
