[0/3] send-email: teach git send-email mode to translate aliases

Message

Jacob Keller Aug. 8, 2024, 9:09 p.m. UTC

The b4 program has its own "b4 send" utility for sending a patch series. It
is similar in many respects to git send-email. Currently, it lacks support
for processing aliases, which makes switching between git send-email and b4
send somewhat annoying.

It would be convenient if b4 (or other programs interacting with git) could
make use of git send-email's alias file support.

Teach git send-email a new --translate-aliases option, which enables a new
mode to interpret all remaining arguments as email aliases, translating
them according to the configured alias file. Output the translated email
addresses one per line.

I also considered implementing a new "full" format for --dump-aliases which
would dump the entire alias file along with its configured email addresses.
I ended up dropping that change as I felt that it would be less usable than
the translation feature.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <[e-mail]>
---
Jacob Keller (3):
      t90001-send-email.sh: fix quoting for mailrc --dump-aliases test
      t9001-send-email.sh: update alias list used for pine test
      send-email: teach git send-email option to translate aliases

 Documentation/git-send-email.txt |   7 +++
 git-send-email.perl              |  17 ++++++-
 t/t9001-send-email.sh            | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 3 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 406f326d271e0bacecdb00425422c5fa3f314930
change-id: 20240808-jk-translate-alias-send-email-1ce048643e5d

Best regards,