Documentation: Note file formats send-email accepts
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Documentation/git-send-email.txt
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@@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ The header of the email is configurable by command line options. If not
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specified on the command line, the user will be prompted with a ReadLine
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enabled interface to provide the necessary information.
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+There are two formats accepted for patch files:
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+1. mbox format files
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+This is what linkgit:git-format-patch[1] generates. Most headers and MIME
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+formatting are ignored.
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+2. The original format used by Greg Kroah-Hartman's 'send_lots_of_email.pl'
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+script
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+This format expects the first line of the file to contain the "Cc:" value
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+and the "Subject:" of the message as the second line.
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OPTIONS
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