[PATCH 1/9] send-email: further document missing sendmail aliases functionality
From: Eric Sunshine <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:05:04
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Sendmail aliases[1] supports expansion to a file ("/path/name") or
pipe ("|command"), as well as file inclusion (":include: /path/name"),
however, our implementation does not support such functionality.
[1]: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=aliases&sektion=5
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <redacted>
---
Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index b48a764..e6d466e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt@@ -396,6 +396,9 @@ sendmail;; contain a `"` symbol are ignored. * Line continuations are not supported: lines that start with whitespace characters, or end with a `\` symbol are ignored. +* Redirection to a file (`/path/name`) or pipe (`|command`) is not + supported. +* File inclusion (`:include: /path/name`) is not supported. * Warnings are printed on the standard error output for any explicitly unsupported constructs, and any other lines that are not recognized by the parser.
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