From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Anderson Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Add documentation for git-send-email-script Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 04:17:25 -0400 Message-ID: <112279784541@foobar.com> References: <11227978451100@foobar.com> Reply-To: Ryan Anderson Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: ryan@michonline.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jul 31 10:19:04 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dz91x-00013u-LG for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:18:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261846AbVGaISf (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 04:18:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261845AbVGaIS0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 04:18:26 -0400 Received: from mail.autoweb.net ([198.172.237.26]:4841 "EHLO mail.autoweb.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261846AbVGaIRb convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 04:17:31 -0400 Received: from pcp01184054pcs.strl301.mi.comcast.net ([68.60.186.73] helo=michonline.com) by mail.autoweb.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1Dz90l-0005mT-8m; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 04:17:31 -0400 Received: from [10.254.251.12] (helo=mythryan) by michonline.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Dz9AL-0004n2-00; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 04:27:25 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=mythryan) by mythryan with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Dz90f-0006Xf-Jo; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 04:17:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <11227978451100@foobar.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email-script To: junkio@cox.net, git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson --- Documentation/git-send-email-script.txt | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/git-send-email-script.txt 799a6320d3b07347869093beec303afbc005cf26 diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email-script.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email-script.txt new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email-script.txt @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +git-send-email-script(1) +======================= +v0.1, July 2005 + +NAME +---- +git-send-email-script - Send a collection of patches as emails + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +'git-send-email-script' [options] [... file|directory] + + + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +Takes the patches given on the command line and emails them out. + +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 +enabled interface to provide the necessary information. + +The options available are: + + --to + Specify the primary recipient of the emails generated. + Generally, this will be the upstream maintainer of the + project involved. + + --from + Specify the sender of the emails. This will default to + the value GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT, as returned by "git-var -l". + The user will still be prompted to confirm this entry. + + --subject + Specify the initial subject of the email thread. + + --in-reply-to + Specify the contents of the first In-Reply-To header. + Subsequent emails will refer to the previous email + instead of this. + When overriding on the command line, it may be necessary + to set this to a space. For example + --in-reply-to=" " + +Author +------ +Written by Ryan Anderson + +git-send-email-script is originally based upon +send_lots_of_email.pl by Greg Kroah-Hartman. + +Documentation +-------------- +Documentation by Ryan Anderson + +GIT +--- +Part of the link:git.html[git] suite +