Re: How can I specify the "sendmail" program for git-send-email?

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Erik Faye-Lund [off-list ref] writes:

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Well, I've always been slightly annoyed by the "send-mail" vs
"sendemail" inconsistency.

Hrm, isn't it between "sendmail" (as in /usr/lib/sendmail) and
"send-email" (a subcommand of git)?

Ugh, you are right. My brain must have been defective :)

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Perhaps we could do something along these
lines (plus all documentation-updates, omitted for clarity) to reduce
the risk of confusion?

Assuming that the contrast between "sendmail" and "git send-email"
is what you are trying to address, I fail to see how it would help
reducing the confusion if you start naming configuration variables
used by "git send-email" without E.

No, this was just me being a moron.

If the proposal were to give "send-email.$var" synomyms to
corresponding "sendemail.$var" variables, I would have been
persuaded to believe it may alleviate potential confusion, though.

This was really the way I wanted to go, but I somehow got unsure about
the legality of the dashes in config sections. I'm a bit skeptical to
introducing new non-letter characters if we don't have to.

So let's just drop my suggestion. I wasn't thinking straight.