From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paolo Bonzini Subject: [PATCH v2] doc tweak for git-send-email Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:30:27 +0200 Message-ID: <1244705427-3376-1-git-send-email-bonzini@gnu.org> References: <4A30568E.7060503@gmail.com> Cc: bebarino@gmail.com To: X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 11 09:30:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MEekL-0007qh-VD for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:30:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754809AbZFKHal (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:30:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754770AbZFKHak (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:30:40 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:52765 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754285AbZFKHaj (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:30:39 -0400 Received: from bonzini by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MEekC-0004ek-GV; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:30:40 -0400 X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.0.3 In-Reply-To: <4A30568E.7060503@gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 --- 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 794224b..a282190 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 -- 1.6.0.3