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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-send-email.txt2
-rwxr-xr-xgit-send-email.perl10
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index e6d466e9a5..7ae467ba41 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -394,8 +394,6 @@ described below:
sendmail;;
* Quoted aliases and quoted addresses are not supported: lines that
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.
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index e777bd3a60..eb1d678fb0 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -492,8 +492,6 @@ sub parse_sendmail_alias {
local $_ = shift;
if (/"/) {
print STDERR "warning: sendmail alias with quotes is not supported: $_\n";
- } elsif (/^\s|\\$/) {
- print STDERR "warning: sendmail continuation line is not supported: $_\n";
} elsif (/^(\S+?)\s*:\s*(.+)$/) {
my ($alias, $addr) = ($1, $2);
$aliases{$alias} = [ split_addrs($addr) ];
@@ -504,10 +502,16 @@ sub parse_sendmail_alias {
sub parse_sendmail_aliases {
my $fh = shift;
+ my $s = '';
while (<$fh>) {
+ chomp;
next if /^\s*$/ || /^\s*#/;
- parse_sendmail_alias($_);
+ $s .= $_, next if $s =~ s/\\$// || s/^\s+//;
+ parse_sendmail_alias($s) if $s;
+ $s = $_;
}
+ $s =~ s/\\$//; # silently tolerate stray '\' on last line
+ parse_sendmail_alias($s) if $s;
}
my %parse_alias = (