From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Boyd Subject: [PATCH] git-send-email.txt: describe --compose better Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:44:57 -0700 Message-ID: <780e0a6b0903160044u301e65c7sc75e3f5b8230273c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 16 08:46:44 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 1Lj7Wy-0005ew-Qe for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:46:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755876AbZCPHpB (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:45:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752512AbZCPHpA (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:45:00 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.172]:6657 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755625AbZCPHo7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:44:59 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 28so1775018wfa.4 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:44:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=P17ldNF8OOdxB+fCGsDYPYs6hAzlAqM5g2jmjiuUkX4=; b=JS6SIfj7AeFoCq5u8vb3Qq7u3UMR4KsZthalDdR8Huleu9u3gIzubozGZ6SUYHb0LJ 7n24Wlrl3kLfWd9WIx3pffp/60EffySRT6q/CAzm+sKFA8EP/Cz/o7Upo+RQOitePqMp UHdeBbaiGj+ibEqLC2W3GAVJXDDLM0K6FrIwQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=nWAicKiCYPHKCS+IB2uwG2Xa49SMEWY+n+H0wiER18Rvgl5l211yXsE8bpVRDmz6bG ErFPpgH5BkrAMAhuSw9IA+sv3aLs3zmP02PvcNUO//NhS6IHbtD33BcFGKgQi7fSUZrm Q8cdUfn9k9w5ePZRfPPEyR/K3khwCRWCkPdL0= Received: by 10.143.4.16 with SMTP id g16mr2007089wfi.307.1237189497412; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:44:57 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd --- Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 13 ++++++------- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index 14dfb50..10dfd66 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -60,14 +60,13 @@ The --cc option must be repeated for each user you want on the cc list. Use $GIT_EDITOR, core.editor, $VISUAL, or $EDITOR to edit an introductory message for the patch series. + -When '--compose' is used, git send-email gets less interactive will use the -values of the headers you set there. If the body of the email (what you type -after the headers and a blank line) only contains blank (or GIT: prefixed) -lines, the summary won't be sent, but git-send-email will still use the -Headers values if you don't removed them. +When '--compose' is used, git send-email will use the From, Subject, and +In-Reply-To headers specified in the message. If the body of the message +(what you type after the headers and a blank line) only contains blank +(or GIT: prefixed) lines the summary won't be sent, but From, Subject, +and In-Reply-To headers will be used unless they are removed. + -If it wasn't able to see a header in the summary it will ask you about it -interactively after quitting your editor. +Missing From or In-Reply-To headers will be prompted for. --from:: Specify the sender of the emails. This will default to -- 1.6.2