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From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update documentation of --compose to git-send-email-script.txt
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 01:13:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11258971872608-git-send-email-ryan@michonline.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1125897187857-git-send-email-ryan@michonline.com>

Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>

---

 Documentation/git-send-email-script.txt |   13 +++++++++----
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

60765e20aa12da748f43204e25cb582f88fb16c8
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email-script.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email-script.txt
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email-script.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email-script.txt
@@ -33,16 +33,21 @@ The options available are:
 	the value GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT, as returned by "git-var -l".
 	The user will still be prompted to confirm this entry.
 
+   --compose
+	Use \$EDITOR to edit an introductory message for the
+	patch series.
+
    --subject
    	Specify the initial subject of the email thread.
+	Only necessary if --compose is also set.  If --compose
+	is not set, this will be prompted for.
 
    --in-reply-to
 	Specify the contents of the first In-Reply-To header.
 	Subsequent emails will refer to the previous email 
-	instead of this.
-	When overriding on the command line, it may be necessary
-	to set this to a space.  For example
-		--in-reply-to=" "
+	instead of this if --chain-reply-to is set (the default)
+	Only necessary if --compose is also set.  If --compose
+	is not set, this will be prompted for.
 
    --chain-reply-to, --no-chain-reply-to
 	If this is set, each email will be sent as a reply to the previous

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-05  5:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-05  5:13 [PATCH 0/2] Update git-send-email-script with --compose Ryan Anderson
2005-09-05  5:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] Make git-send-email-script ignore some unnecessary options when operating in batch mode Ryan Anderson
2005-09-05  5:13   ` Ryan Anderson [this message]
2005-09-05 11:16 ` [PATCH 0/2] Update git-send-email-script with --compose Martin Langhoff
2005-09-05 15:37   ` Ryan Anderson
2005-09-05 18:46     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-05 20:06       ` Martin Langhoff
2005-09-05 20:38         ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-05 20:45           ` Martin Langhoff
2005-09-05 21:10             ` Junio C Hamano

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