From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:30:27 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Documentation: git-send-mail can take rev-list arg to drive format-patch X-Git-Tag: v1.6.3.3~15 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=94af7c31a52ba1a26bd663c794e33284acf41a49;p=git.git Documentation: git-send-mail can take rev-list arg to drive format-patch 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index 794224b1b..a2821907c 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