Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: add sendmailCommand option

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Gregory Anders <greg@gpanders.com>,
	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: add sendmailCommand option
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 14:32:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <609c2d652d592_71bd120824@natae.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YJwZFpxKLTch/N6O@gpanders.com>

Gregory Anders wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2021 12:21 -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >The sole purpose of software is that it's useful to users. Software 
> >that works today but not tomorrow is bad software.
> >
> >The primary purpose of the testing framework is to ensure that doesn't
> >happen; that git keeps working in the same way today than it did
> >yesterday.
> >
> >That's why it's more important that tests excercise the options people
> >were using yesterday.
> >
> >In addition we also want to be testing new functionality, but that's *in
> >addition*.
> >
> >Maybe at some point in the future more people will be using
> >--sendmail-cmd, but right now that's not the case. Right now we need to
> >be testing the option people are using *today*.
> 
> I agree with this completely. Is this requirement satisfied with the 
> addition of a test that checks the usage of an absolute path with 
> --smtp-server (the behavior that people were using yesterday), while all 
> of the existing tests are still converted to the new option? I have such 
> a test written (along with a few others) in the forthcoming v2 patch:

I still insist the current tests should not be converted. But ultimately
it's Junio's call.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras