From 94af7c31a52ba1a26bd663c794e33284acf41a49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:30:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) 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 -- 2.30.2