1git-send-email(1) 2================= 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-send-email - Send a collection of patches as emails 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-send-email' [options] <file|directory> [... file|directory] 12 13 14 15DESCRIPTION 16----------- 17Takes the patches given on the command line and emails them out. 18 19The header of the email is configurable by command line options. If not 20specified on the command line, the user will be prompted with a ReadLine 21enabled interface to provide the necessary information. 22 23OPTIONS 24------- 25The options available are: 26 27--chain-reply-to, --no-chain-reply-to:: 28 If this is set, each email will be sent as a reply to the previous 29 email sent. If disabled with "--no-chain-reply-to", all emails after 30 the first will be sent as replies to the first email sent. When using 31 this, it is recommended that the first file given be an overview of the 32 entire patch series. 33 Default is --chain-reply-to 34 35--compose:: 36 Use $EDITOR to edit an introductory message for the 37 patch series. 38 39--from:: 40 Specify the sender of the emails. This will default to 41 the value GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT, as returned by "git-var -l". 42 The user will still be prompted to confirm this entry. 43 44--in-reply-to:: 45 Specify the contents of the first In-Reply-To header. 46 Subsequent emails will refer to the previous email 47 instead of this if --chain-reply-to is set (the default) 48 Only necessary if --compose is also set. If --compose 49 is not set, this will be prompted for. 50 51--quiet:: 52 Make git-send-email less verbose. One line per email should be 53 all that is output. 54 55--smtp-server:: 56 If set, specifies the outgoing SMTP server to use. Defaults to 57 localhost. 58 59--subject:: 60 Specify the initial subject of the email thread. 61 Only necessary if --compose is also set. If --compose 62 is not set, this will be prompted for. 63 64--to:: 65 Specify the primary recipient of the emails generated. 66 Generally, this will be the upstream maintainer of the 67 project involved. 68 69 70Author 71------ 72Written by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> 73 74git-send-email is originally based upon 75send_lots_of_email.pl by Greg Kroah-Hartman. 76 77Documentation 78-------------- 79Documentation by Ryan Anderson 80 81GIT 82--- 83Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 84