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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: add patch submit cheatsheet
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2015 17:51:15 +0100
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2015-12-09 16:47, Van Haaren, Harry:
> > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com]
> > It would be better with a colon:
> > 	Fixes: line
> 
> Ok, will send a v2 with that fix.
> 
> > > git send-email -N --to 
> > Why -N?
> 
> -N sets the Number of patches to send, when not sending .patch files but sending the latest commits of the current branch in git.
> 
> Would you prefer if the sending of .patch files was documented? I'm indifferent - but learned the -N way first :)

No it's OK.
We just need to understand that N must be replaced by a number.
Maybe -<N> ?