Todd ZullingerSigned-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> ---
These formats are noted in the git-send-email.perl script, but not mentioned in the documentation anywhere. I debated adding a note that the mbox format was generally preferred, but I wasn't sure if that was important or appropriate. I felt that I had bloated the Description section enough already. :)
I hope that I got the aciidoc punctuation correct. When to use '' versus `` wasn't entirely clear. So I made like a chamealeon and tried to emulate what was nearby.
This was spurred by a bug report against the Fedora git packages:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/486103
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index ff4aeff..66bf3b2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ The header of the email is configurable by command line options. If not specified on the command line, the user will be prompted with a ReadLine enabled interface to provide the necessary information. +There are two formats accepted for patch files: + +1. mbox format files ++ +This is what linkgit:git-format-patch[1] generates. Most headers and MIME +formatting are ignored. + +2. The original format used by Greg Kroah-Hartman's 'send_lots_of_email.pl' +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. + OPTIONS -------
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