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Re: git send-email: How to modify subject prefix?

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Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 24, 2009, 15:32 UTC
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On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:28, Constantine Plotnikov <constantine.plotnikov@gmail.com> wrote:

> This option works. Thank you.
>
> BTW why this option is not in the man page? Is it discouraged for use?

The option --subject-prefix is documented in format-patch's man page (it is an option of format-patch, after all :-D).

However, using '--' with send-email to pass along arguments to a call to format-patch is not documented in send-email's man page, and it should be.

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