Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx>
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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
Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 13 +++++++++++++
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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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