From: Stephen Boyd Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:57:50 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc tweak for git-send-email Message-ID: <4A30568E.7060503@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1244656571-15560-1-git-send-email-bonzini@gnu.org> Paolo Bonzini wrote: > The git-send-email docs do not mention except in the usage lines > the combined patch formatting/sending ability of git-send-email. > This fills the hole. > > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini > --- > Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 3 +++ > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt > index eb851b3..02bb0d3 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt > @@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ script > This format expects the first line of the file to contain the "Cc:" value > and the "Subject:" of the message as the second line. > > +In addition, git send-email can be asked to generate patches with git > +format-patch and send them. > + You are right that the docs don't mention this feature very clearly, but this patch doesn't fill the hole for me. How do I tell send-email to generate patches with format-patch? I know from looking at the code that send-email actually calls format-patch with the rev-list passed on the command line. Maybe it would be more clear to say that rev-list can be specified in the same way as format-patch? Also, could you update the first sentence in the description section? Obviously send-email takes more than just patches on the command line.