From: Todd Zullinger Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:51:06 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Documentation: Note file formats send-email accepts X-Git-Tag: v1.6.2-rc2~18^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c4ba87a6e2fccbf4d763ed0212a20a784b964ef8;p=git.git Documentation: Note file formats send-email accepts Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index ff4aeff4e..66bf3b2fc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ 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. +There are two formats accepted for patch files: + +1. mbox format files ++ +This is what linkgit:git-format-patch[1] generates. Most headers and MIME +formatting are ignored. + +2. The original format used by Greg Kroah-Hartman's 'send_lots_of_email.pl' +script ++ +This format expects the first line of the file to contain the "Cc:" value +and the "Subject:" of the message as the second line. + OPTIONS -------