From: Eric Sunshine Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 22:29:23 +0000 (-0400) Subject: send-email: further document missing sendmail aliases functionality X-Git-Tag: v2.5.0-rc0~28^2~9 X-Git-Url: http://git.bitbasher.net/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5c3494ed880b56eb2e487fd5504bc66674151bae;p=git.git send-email: further document missing sendmail aliases functionality 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index b48a764320..e6d466e9a5 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.