send-email: automatic envelope sender

This adds the option to specify the envelope sender as "auto" which
would pick the 'from' address. This is good because now we can specify
the address only in one place in $HOME/.gitconfig and change it easily.

[jc: added tests]

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 767cf4d4bdcdfbb6e76b3680b0e89af2186d632a..118c902e7a802ad0cc43f6ae2120a447bc55d70b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -108,9 +108,10 @@ Sending
 --envelope-sender=<address>::
        Specify the envelope sender used to send the emails.
        This is useful if your default address is not the address that is
-       subscribed to a list. If you use the sendmail binary, you must have
-       suitable privileges for the -f parameter. Default is the value of
-       the 'sendemail.envelopesender' configuration variable; if that is
+       subscribed to a list. In order to use the 'From' address, set the
+       value to "auto". If you use the sendmail binary, you must have
+       suitable privileges for the -f parameter.  Default is the value of the
+       'sendemail.envelopesender' configuration variable; if that is
        unspecified, choosing the envelope sender is left to your MTA.
 
 --smtp-encryption=<encryption>::

diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index f5ba4e7699936499021a8a955b198668b98a1696..9f44e2964a52b84ac3d03b2bbafab8ae3d6a6d2a 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -861,7 +861,9 @@ X-Mailer: git-send-email $gitversion
 
        my @sendmail_parameters = ('-i', @recipients);
        my $raw_from = $sanitized_sender;
-       $raw_from = $envelope_sender if (defined $envelope_sender);
+       if (defined $envelope_sender && $envelope_sender ne "auto") {
+               $raw_from = $envelope_sender;
+       }
        $raw_from = extract_valid_address($raw_from);
        unshift (@sendmail_parameters,
                        '-f', $raw_from) if(defined $envelope_sender);

diff --git a/t/t9001-send-email.sh b/t/t9001-send-email.sh
index 0164629ed00e464bab00083a077e194987f69b4c..c23ea0f3c55013fab6cc42a58d613a1be2b61168 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t9001-send-email.sh
+++ b/t/t9001-send-email.sh
@@ -112,6 +112,23 @@ test_expect_success \
     'Verify commandline' \
     'test_cmp expected commandline1'
 
+test_expect_success 'Send patches with --envelope-sender=auto' '
+    clean_fake_sendmail &&
+     git send-email --envelope-sender=auto --suppress-cc=sob --from="Example <nobody@example.com>" --to=nobody@example.com --smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" $patches 2>errors
+'
+
+cat >expected <<\EOF
+!nobody@example.com!
+!-i!
+!nobody@example.com!
+!author@example.com!
+!one@example.com!
+!two@example.com!
+EOF
+test_expect_success \
+    'Verify commandline' \
+    'test_cmp expected commandline1'
+
 cat >expected-show-all-headers <<\EOF
 0001-Second.patch
 (mbox) Adding cc: A <author@example.com> from line 'From: A <author@example.com>'