On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 03:53:57PM -0400, Hugo Villeneuve wrote:
[...]
> > > I have a global git settings in /etc/git/config that I use for most of
> > > my projects:
> > >
> > > [sendemail]
> > > smtpUser = my-username
> > > smtpServer = mail.my-server.com
> > > smtpServerPort = 2525
> > > tocmd ="`pwd`/scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit --nogit-fallback
> > > --norolestats --nol"
> > > cccmd ="`pwd`/scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit --nogit-fallback
> > > --norolestats --nom"
> > >
> > > However, for a particular project, I must use a different sendemail
> > > configuration. I have added this to my .git/config file in this
> > > project:
> > >
> > > [sendemail]
> > > smtpServer = alternate-mail-server.com
> > >
> > > For this, I do not want to use the global entries like smtpUser,
> > > tocmd, etc. Unfortunately, these entries are set to the default value
> > > in /etc/config.
> >
> > Yes, but you could explicitly set them to empty strings in your
> > project's .git/config.
>
> Hi Tassilo,
> no, I tried it and it doesn't work.
>
> Setting an entry to an empty string is not the same as having this entry
> "not defined" for some applications.
>
> For example, if you look at the git sendemail source code, you will see take
> a different action is taken depending if the "tocmd" entry is undefined or
> is set to an empty string.
[...]
The git-send-email manual page [1] mentions the possibility of having named
"identities" for sending mail - the sendemail.identity configuration variable
and the "namespaced" settings «sendemail.<identity>.*».
Wouldn't it be possible to (ab)use this mechainsm in the following way:
* In the global configuration, have the default settings in a named
identity, as well as having the sendemail.identity set to the name of that
identity - something like
sendemail.default.smtpUser = my-username
...
sendemail.identity = default
* The local configuration might possibly be just left as is or, if that does
not work, you could define it in a way similar to the global one, but
involving a differently-named identity - such as "local".
Please note that I do not even have git-send-email installed, so all of the
above is plain guessing.
1. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email
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