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diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index 7ec9dab..5a168cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -348,11 +348,12 @@ sendemail.confirm:: one of 'always', 'never', 'cc', 'compose', or 'auto'. See '--confirm' in the previous section for the meaning of these values. - +EXAMPLE +------- Use gmail as the smtp server ----------------------------- - -Add the following section to the config file: +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +To use 'git send-email' to send your patches through the GMail SMTP server, +edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: [sendemail] smtpencryption = tls @@ -360,22 +361,19 @@ Add the following section to the config file: smtpuser = yourname@gmail.com smtpserverport = 587 -Note: the following perl modules are required - Net::SMTP::SSL, MIME::Base64 and Authen::SASL - +Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the +following commands: -Author ------- -Written by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> + $ git format-patch --cover-letter -M origin/master -o outgoing/ + $ edit outgoing/0000-* + $ git send-email outgoing/* -git-send-email is originally based upon -send_lots_of_email.pl by Greg Kroah-Hartman. - - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Ryan Anderson +Note: the following perl modules are required + Net::SMTP::SSL, MIME::Base64 and Authen::SASL +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:git-format-patch[1], linkgit:git-imap-send[1], mbox(5) GIT --- |