Merge branch 'lh/submodule'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-mailsplit.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt b/Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt
index c11d6a530f67857bb28a5b3cee48bc5b01f5cb92..c4f4cabbdcdaae18491c301d44fd68ae89b18352 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt
@@ -7,12 +7,15 @@ git-mailsplit - Simple UNIX mbox splitter program
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-mailsplit' [-b] [-f<nn>] [-d<prec>] -o<directory> [--] [<mbox>...]
+'git-mailsplit' [-b] [-f<nn>] [-d<prec>] -o<directory> [--] [<mbox>|<Maildir>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-Splits a mbox file into a list of files: "0001" "0002" ..  in the specified
-directory so you can process them further from there.
+Splits a mbox file or a Maildir into a list of files: "0001" "0002" ..  in the
+specified directory so you can process them further from there.
+
+IMPORTANT: Maildir splitting relies upon filenames being sorted to output
+patches in the correct order.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
@@ -20,6 +23,10 @@ OPTIONS
        Mbox file to split.  If not given, the mbox is read from
        the standard input.
 
+<Maildir>::
+       Root of the Maildir to split. This directory should contain the cur, tmp
+       and new subdirectories.
+
 <directory>::
        Directory in which to place the individual messages.
 
@@ -49,4 +56,3 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-