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List:       git
Subject:    [PATCH 1/9] send-email: further document missing sendmail aliases functionality
From:       Eric Sunshine <sunshine () sunshineco ! com>
Date:       2015-05-31 22:29:23
Message-ID: 1433111371-19573-2-git-send-email-sunshine () sunshineco ! com
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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 <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
---
 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.
-- 
2.4.2.538.g5f4350e

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