Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] send-email: Improve format of smtp initialization error message

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 08:13:46 -0800

Alex Kuleshov <[email-masked]> writes:

> What's about output like this:
>
> Unable to initialize SMTP properly. Check config and use --smtp-debug.
>
> VALUES:
> 	server=smtp.gmail.com
> 	encryption=
> 	hello=localhost.localdomain
> 	port=587

Hmmm, maybe I am being slow but what's about it?  I thought that was
what you are trying to give with your patch since the first
iteration.

Puzzled...

>
> Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> @ 2014-12-30 00:50 QYZT:
>
>> Alexander Kuleshov <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <[email-masked]>
>>> ---
>>>  git-send-email.perl | 8 ++++----
>>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
>>> index 82c6fea..60dcd8d 100755
>>> --- a/git-send-email.perl
>>> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
>>> @@ -1275,10 +1275,10 @@ X-Mailer: git-send-email $gitversion
>>>
>>>  		if (!$smtp) {
>>>  			die "Unable to initialize SMTP properly. Check config and use --smtp-debug. ",
>>> -			    "VALUES: server=$smtp_server ",
>>> -			    "encryption=$smtp_encryption ",
>>> -			    "hello=$smtp_domain",
>>> -			    defined $smtp_server_port ? " port=$smtp_server_port" : "";
>>> +			    "\nVALUES: \n\tserver=$smtp_server ",
>>> +			    "\n\tencryption=$smtp_encryption ",
>>> +			    "\n\thello=$smtp_domain",
>>> +			    defined $smtp_server_port ? " \n\tport=$smtp_server_port" : "";
>>
>> It may be a good convention to have LF at the beginning of a new
>> string (i.e. we terminate the old line only when we have something
>> more to say), but that is true only when we want to end the sentence
>> without the final newline.  I wonder if that is true in this case;
>> do we want perl to say "at line # in file X" at the end?
>>
>> In any case, you have two output lines that ends with a trailing SP
>> just before LF, which is probably not what you wanted.
>>
>> If we want to see all lines end with LF, it may be far easier to
>> read this way:
>>
>> 	die "msg\n",
>>             "\tvar1=val1\n",
>>             "\tvar2=val2\n",
>>             defined $var3 ? "\tvar3=val3\n" : "";
>>
>> I dunno.
>
> --
> Best regards.
> 0xAX