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authorThiago Perrotta <tbperrotta@gmail.com>2021-10-25 21:27:07 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-10-28 16:06:15 (GMT)
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send-email docs: add format-patch options
git-send-email(1) does not mention that "git format-patch" options are accepted. Augment SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION to mention it. Update git-send-email.perl USAGE to be consistent with git-send-email(1). Signed-off-by: Thiago Perrotta <tbperrotta@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ git-send-email - Send a collection of patches as emails
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git send-email' [<options>] <file|directory|rev-list options>...
+'git send-email' [<options>] <file|directory>...
+'git send-email' [<options>] <format-patch options>
'git send-email' --dump-aliases
@@ -19,7 +20,8 @@ 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.
+be passed to git send-email, as well as options understood by
+linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
The header of the email is configurable via command-line options. If not
specified on the command line, the user will be prompted with a ReadLine