git-send-email: die if sendmail.* config is set

ddevault · gitster · commit dd84e528a34c · 2020-07-23T18:00:34.000-07:00
I've seen several people mis-configure git send-email on their first
attempt because they set the sendmail.* config options - not
sendemail.*. This patch detects this mistake and bails out with a
friendly warning.

Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault &lt;sir@cmpwn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt b/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt
@@ -61,3 +61,8 @@ sendemail.smtpBatchSize::
 sendemail.smtpReloginDelay::
 	Seconds wait before reconnecting to smtp server.
 	See also the `--relogin-delay` option of linkgit:git-send-email[1].
+
+sendemail.forbidSendmailVariables::
+	To avoid common misconfiguration mistakes, linkgit:git-send-email[1]
+	will abort with a warning if any configuration options for "sendmail"
+	exist. Set this variable to bypass the check.
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ sub do_edit {
 my $use_xmailer = 1;
 my $validate = 1;
 my $target_xfer_encoding = 'auto';
+my $forbid_sendmail_variables = 1;
 
 my %config_bool_settings = (
     "thread" => \$thread,
@@ -263,6 +264,7 @@ sub do_edit {
     "multiedit" => \$multiedit,
     "annotate" => \$annotate,
     "xmailer" => \$use_xmailer,
+    "forbidsendmailvariables" => \$forbid_sendmail_variables,
 );
 
 my %config_settings = (
@@ -478,6 +480,12 @@ sub read_config {
     usage();
 }
 
+if ($forbid_sendmail_variables && (scalar Git::config_regexp("^sendmail[.]")) != 0) {
+	die __("fatal: found configuration options for 'sendmail'\n" .
+		"git-send-email is configured with the sendemail.* options - note the 'e'.\n" .
+		"Set sendemail.forbidSendmailVariables to false to disable this check.\n");
+}
+
 die __("Cannot run git format-patch from outside a repository\n")
 	if $format_patch and not $repo;
 
diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm
@@ -723,6 +723,32 @@ sub config_int {
 	return scalar _config_common({'kind' => '--int'}, @_);
 }
 
+=item config_regexp ( RE )
+
+Retrieve the list of configuration key names matching the regular
+expression C<RE>. The return value is a list of strings matching
+this regex.
+
+=cut
+
+sub config_regexp {
+	my ($self, $regex) = _maybe_self(@_);
+	try {
+		my @cmd = ('config', '--name-only', '--get-regexp', $regex);
+		unshift @cmd, $self if $self;
+		my @matches = command(@cmd);
+		return @matches;
+	} catch Git::Error::Command with {
+		my $E = shift;
+		if ($E->value() == 1) {
+			my @matches = ();
+			return @matches;
+		} else {
+			throw $E;
+		}
+	};
+}
+
 # Common subroutine to implement bulk of what the config* family of methods
 # do. This currently wraps command('config') so it is not so fast.
 sub _config_common {
diff --git a/t/t9001-send-email.sh b/t/t9001-send-email.sh
@@ -2142,4 +2142,33 @@ test_expect_success $PREREQ 'test that send-email works outside a repo' '
 		"$(pwd)/0001-add-master.patch"
 '
 
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'test that sendmail config is rejected' '
+	test_config sendmail.program sendmail &&
+	test_must_fail git send-email \
+		--from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
+		--to=nobody@example.com \
+		--smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \
+		HEAD^ 2>err &&
+	test_i18ngrep "found configuration options for '"'"sendmail"'"'" err
+'
+
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'test that sendmail config rejection is specific' '
+	test_config resendmail.program sendmail &&
+	git send-email \
+		--from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
+		--to=nobody@example.com \
+		--smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \
+		HEAD^
+'
+
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'test forbidSendmailVariables behavior override' '
+	test_config sendmail.program sendmail &&
+	test_config sendemail.forbidSendmailVariables false &&
+	git send-email \
+		--from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
+		--to=nobody@example.com \
+		--smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \
+		HEAD^
+'
+
 test_done
