Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] docs: improve send-email documentation

From: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Date: May 6, 2025, 05:36 UTC
Message-ID: <PN3PR01MB9597EF61B4CC43595DE4341BB8892@PN3PR01MB9597.INDPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqldralil9.fsf@gitster.g>

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> On 6 May 2025, at 5:24 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com> writes:
> 
>> +If you want to send a single patch, run:
>> +
>> +    $ git send-email --to="mailinglist@example.org" HEAD~1
> 
> Didn't I already tell you not to encourage to run format-patch from
> send-email all over the place?  Just prepare the mail files once,
> and feed them, perhaps

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>    ... how to send patches to a mailing list from a set of patch
>    files you prepared with `git format-patch`.
> 
>    If you want to send a single patch:
> 
>    $ git send-email --to="there" 0001-fix-this.patch
> 
>    Or more than one
> 
>    $ git send-email --to="there" patches/000[1-4]*.patch
> 
> etc.
> 
>> -    $ git format-patch --cover-letter -M origin/master -o outgoing/
>> -    $ edit outgoing/0000-*
>> -    $ git send-email outgoing/*