From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 03:03:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] send-email docs: add format-patch options
Message-ID: <d9114e0a-cb6e-1791-51f8-6e57f313e8d5@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo88hspvv.fsf@gitster.g>

On 25/09/21 03.03, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ah, thanks for explanation.
> 
>      git format-patch -2
> 
> would be options-only way to "indicate some sort of revision", so
> perhaps
> 
>      . git send-email <send-email options> files|directory
>      . git send-email <send-email options> <format-patch options>
> 
> (where "options" is used to refer to both --options and arguments)
> would illustrate the differences better?
> 

But we can also directly specify revision range (commonly <common 
ancestor>..HEAD or HEAD ^<common ancestor>).

So for the second form, the syntax will be:

   git send-email <send-email options> <format-patch options> <revision 
range>

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