[PATCH] docs: git-send-email: difference between ssl and tls smtp-encryption

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Ssndanailov@wired4ever.net <sndanailov@wired4ever.net>

Date

Oct 10, 2022, 17:28 UTC

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<20221010172859.13832-1-sndanailov@wired4ever.net>

From: Sotir Danailov <sndanailov@wired4ever.net>

Signed-off-by: Sotir Danailov <sndanailov@wired4ever.net>
---
 Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 3290043053..4db32f05f0 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -178,8 +178,11 @@ Sending
 	for `sendmail` in `/usr/sbin`, `/usr/lib` and $PATH.
 
 --smtp-encryption=<encryption>::
-	Specify the encryption to use, either 'ssl' or 'tls'.  Any other
-	value reverts to plain SMTP.  Default is the value of
+	Specify the encryption to use, either 'ssl' or 'tls'. Any other
+	value reverts to plain SMTP. The difference between the two for Git is
+	that 'ssl' uses implicit encryption and defaults to port 465, 'tls'
+	uses explicit encryption and defaults to port 25. Other ports might be
+	used by the SMTP server. Default is the value of
 	`sendemail.smtpEncryption`.
 
 --smtp-domain=<FQDN>::

-- 
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