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| author | Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> | 2009-06-11 09:30:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-06-11 23:35:05 -0700 |
| commit | 94af7c31a52ba1a26bd663c794e33284acf41a49 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b0ba29cd9ea13f60d4ac5d3142c0c23484dec7f /Documentation/git-send-email.txt | |
| parent | a0c0447b8eda07529eec2ae8fbc6bf68e1ff2d67 (diff) | |
| download | git-94af7c31a52ba1a26bd663c794e33284acf41a49.tar.gz | |
Documentation: git-send-mail can take rev-list arg to drive format-patch
The git-send-email docs do not mention except in the usage lines
the combined patch formatting/sending ability of git-send-email.
This patch expands on the possible arguments to git-send-email
and explains the meaning of the rev-list argument.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-send-email.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index 794224b1b3..a2821907c7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- Takes the patches given on the command line and emails them out. +Patches can be specified as files, directories (which will send all +files in the directory), or directly as a revision list. In the +last case, any format accepted by linkgit:git-format-patch[1] can +be passed to git send-email. The header of the email is configurable by command line options. If not specified on the command line, the user will be prompted with a ReadLine |