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[PATCH v2] doc tweak for git-send-email

From
Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date
Jun 11, 2009, 07:30 UTC
Message-ID
<1244705427-3376-1-git-send-email-bonzini@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To
<4A30568E.7060503@gmail.com>

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 <bonzini@gnu.org>
---
 Documentation/git-send-email.txt |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 794224b..a282190 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
-- 
1.6.0.3
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