imap-send: enable specifying the folder using the command line

Some users may very often want to imap-send messages to a folder
other than the default set in the config. Add a command line
argument for the same.

While at it, fix minor mark-up inconsistencies in the existing
documentation text.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is contained in:
Aditya Garg
2025-06-20 12:10:29 +05:30
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent ea8681e3a4
commit 3168514e6b
3 changed files with 23 additions and 7 deletions

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@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
imap.folder::
The folder to drop the mails into, which is typically the Drafts
folder. For example: "INBOX.Drafts", "INBOX/Drafts" or
"[Gmail]/Drafts". Required.
folder. For example: `INBOX.Drafts`, `INBOX/Drafts` or
`[Gmail]/Drafts`. The IMAP folder to interact with MUST be specified;
the value of this configuration variable is used as the fallback
default value when the `--folder` option is not given.
imap.tunnel::
Command used to set up a tunnel to the IMAP server through which

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@@ -9,21 +9,23 @@ git-imap-send - Send a collection of patches from stdin to an IMAP folder
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git imap-send' [-v] [-q] [--[no-]curl]
'git imap-send' [-v] [-q] [--[no-]curl] [(--folder|-f) <folder>]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
This command uploads a mailbox generated with 'git format-patch'
This command uploads a mailbox generated with `git format-patch`
into an IMAP drafts folder. This allows patches to be sent as
other email is when using mail clients that cannot read mailbox
files directly. The command also works with any general mailbox
in which emails have the fields "From", "Date", and "Subject" in
in which emails have the fields `From`, `Date`, and `Subject` in
that order.
Typical usage is something like:
git format-patch --signoff --stdout --attach origin | git imap-send
------
$ git format-patch --signoff --stdout --attach origin | git imap-send
------
OPTIONS
@@ -37,6 +39,11 @@ OPTIONS
--quiet::
Be quiet.
-f <folder>::
--folder=<folder>::
Specify the folder in which the emails have to saved.
For example: `--folder=[Gmail]/Drafts` or `-f INBOX/Drafts`.
--curl::
Use libcurl to communicate with the IMAP server, unless tunneling
into it. Ignored if Git was built without the USE_CURL_FOR_IMAP_SEND

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@@ -46,12 +46,14 @@
static int verbosity;
static int use_curl = USE_CURL_DEFAULT;
static char *opt_folder;
static const char * const imap_send_usage[] = { "git imap-send [-v] [-q] [--[no-]curl] < <mbox>", NULL };
static const char * const imap_send_usage[] = { "git imap-send [-v] [-q] [--[no-]curl] [(--folder|-f) <folder>] < <mbox>", NULL };
static struct option imap_send_options[] = {
OPT__VERBOSITY(&verbosity),
OPT_BOOL(0, "curl", &use_curl, "use libcurl to communicate with the IMAP server"),
OPT_STRING('f', "folder", &opt_folder, "folder", "specify the IMAP folder"),
OPT_END()
};
@@ -1722,6 +1724,11 @@ int cmd_main(int argc, const char **argv)
argc = parse_options(argc, (const char **)argv, "", imap_send_options, imap_send_usage, 0);
if (opt_folder) {
free(server.folder);
server.folder = xstrdup(opt_folder);
}
if (argc)
usage_with_options(imap_send_usage, imap_send_options);