According to the documentation, the parser should print a warning for
any explicitly unsupported constructs. These are now explicitly
unsupported, so the parser should warn on |, /, and :include: .
Perhaps the lines that match should be ignored like the others, too.
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Eric Sunshine <sunsh...@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> 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 <sunsh...@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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