1git-send-email-script(1) 2======================= 3v0.1, July 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-send-email-script - Send a collection of patches as emails 8 9 10SYNOPSIS 11-------- 12'git-send-email-script' [options] <file|directory> [... file|directory] 13 14 15 16DESCRIPTION 17----------- 18Takes the patches given on the command line and emails them out. 19 20The header of the email is configurable by command line options. If not 21specified on the command line, the user will be prompted with a ReadLine 22enabled interface to provide the necessary information. 23 24The options available are: 25 26 --to 27 Specify the primary recipient of the emails generated. 28 Generally, this will be the upstream maintainer of the 29 project involved. 30 31 --from 32 Specify the sender of the emails. This will default to 33 the value GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT, as returned by "git-var -l". 34 The user will still be prompted to confirm this entry. 35 36 --subject 37 Specify the initial subject of the email thread. 38 39 --in-reply-to 40 Specify the contents of the first In-Reply-To header. 41 Subsequent emails will refer to the previous email 42 instead of this. 43 When overriding on the command line, it may be necessary 44 to set this to a space. For example 45 --in-reply-to=" " 46 47Author 48------ 49Written by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> 50 51git-send-email-script is originally based upon 52send_lots_of_email.pl by Greg Kroah-Hartman. 53 54Documentation 55-------------- 56Documentation by Ryan Anderson 57 58GIT 59--- 60Part of the link:git.html[git] suite 61