tree 747a0744813bb1cc6ca6271dd780fb592a1f22cd
parent cf8ddeead9d0f5b13b268633ead6837803cd40de
author Cord Seele <cowose@gmail.com> 1318625611 +0200
committer Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 1318628749 -0700

send-email: Fix %config_path_settings handling

cec5dae (use new Git::config_path() for aliasesfile, 2011-09-30) broke
the expansion of aliases.

This was caused by treating %config_path_settings, newly introduced in
said patch, like %config_bool_settings instead of like %config_settings.
Copy from %config_settings, making it more readable.

While at it add basic test for expansion of aliases, and for path
expansion, which would catch this error.

Nb. there were a few issues that were responsible for this error:

1. %config_bool_settings and %config_settings despite similar name have
   different semantic.

   %config_bool_settings values are arrays where the first element is
   (reference to) the variable to set, and second element is default
   value... which admittedly is a bit cryptic.  More readable if more
   verbose option would be to use hash reference, e.g.:

        my %config_bool_settings = (
            "thread" => { variable => \$thread, default => 1},
            [...]

   %config_settings values are either either reference to scalar variable
   or reference to array.  In second case it means that option (or config
   option) is multi-valued.  BTW. this is similar to what Getopt::Long does.

2. In cec5dae (use new Git::config_path() for aliasesfile, 2011-09-30)
   the setting "aliasesfile" was moved from %config_settings to newly
   introduced %config_path_settings.  But the loop that parses settings
   from %config_path_settings was copy'n'pasted *wrongly* from
   %config_bool_settings instead of from %config_settings.

   It looks like cec5dae author cargo-culted this change...

3. 994d6c6 (send-email: address expansion for common mailers, 2006-05-14)
   didn't add test for alias expansion to t9001-send-email.sh

Signed-off-by: Cord Seele <cowose@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>