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|rev-list options>... 12 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Takes the patches given on the command line and emails them out. 17 18The header of the email is configurable by command line options. If not 19specified on the command line, the user will be prompted with a ReadLine 20enabled interface to provide the necessary information. 21 22 23OPTIONS 24------- 25 26Composing 27~~~~~~~~~ 28 29--bcc:: 30 Specify a "Bcc:" value for each email. Default is the value of 31 'sendemail.bcc'. 32+ 33The --bcc option must be repeated for each user you want on the bcc list. 34 35--cc:: 36 Specify a starting "Cc:" value for each email. 37 Default is the value of 'sendemail.cc'. 38+ 39The --cc option must be repeated for each user you want on the cc list. 40 41--annotate:: 42 Review each patch you're about to send in an editor. The setting 43 'sendemail.multiedit' defines if this will spawn one editor per patch 44 or one for all of them at once. 45 46--compose:: 47 Use $GIT_EDITOR, core.editor, $VISUAL, or $EDITOR to edit an 48 introductory message for the patch series. 49+ 50When '--compose' is used, git send-email gets less interactive will use the 51values of the headers you set there. If the body of the email (what you type 52after the headers and a blank line) only contains blank (or GIT: prefixed) 53lines, the summary won't be sent, but git-send-email will still use the 54Headers values if you don't removed them. 55+ 56If it wasn't able to see a header in the summary it will ask you about it 57interactively after quitting your editor. 58 59--from:: 60 Specify the sender of the emails. This will default to 61 the value GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT, as returned by "git var -l". 62 The user will still be prompted to confirm this entry. 63 64--in-reply-to:: 65 Specify the contents of the first In-Reply-To header. 66 Subsequent emails will refer to the previous email 67 instead of this if --chain-reply-to is set (the default) 68 Only necessary if --compose is also set. If --compose 69 is not set, this will be prompted for. 70 71--subject:: 72 Specify the initial subject of the email thread. 73 Only necessary if --compose is also set. If --compose 74 is not set, this will be prompted for. 75 76--to:: 77 Specify the primary recipient of the emails generated. Generally, this 78 will be the upstream maintainer of the project involved. Default is the 79 value of the 'sendemail.to' configuration value; if that is unspecified, 80 this will be prompted for. 81+ 82The --to option must be repeated for each user you want on the to list. 83 84 85Sending 86~~~~~~~ 87 88--envelope-sender:: 89 Specify the envelope sender used to send the emails. 90 This is useful if your default address is not the address that is 91 subscribed to a list. If you use the sendmail binary, you must have 92 suitable privileges for the -f parameter. Default is the value of 93 the 'sendemail.envelopesender' configuration variable; if that is 94 unspecified, choosing the envelope sender is left to your MTA. 95 96--smtp-encryption:: 97 Specify the encryption to use, either 'ssl' or 'tls'. Any other 98 value reverts to plain SMTP. Default is the value of 99 'sendemail.smtpencryption'. 100 101--smtp-pass:: 102 Password for SMTP-AUTH. The argument is optional: If no 103 argument is specified, then the empty string is used as 104 the password. Default is the value of 'sendemail.smtppass', 105 however '--smtp-pass' always overrides this value. 106+ 107Furthermore, passwords need not be specified in configuration files 108or on the command line. If a username has been specified (with 109'--smtp-user' or a 'sendemail.smtpuser'), but no password has been 110specified (with '--smtp-pass' or 'sendemail.smtppass'), then the 111user is prompted for a password while the input is masked for privacy. 112 113--smtp-server:: 114 If set, specifies the outgoing SMTP server to use (e.g. 115 `smtp.example.com` or a raw IP address). Alternatively it can 116 specify a full pathname of a sendmail-like program instead; 117 the program must support the `-i` option. Default value can 118 be specified by the 'sendemail.smtpserver' configuration 119 option; the built-in default is `/usr/sbin/sendmail` or 120 `/usr/lib/sendmail` if such program is available, or 121 `localhost` otherwise. 122 123--smtp-server-port:: 124 Specifies a port different from the default port (SMTP 125 servers typically listen to smtp port 25 and ssmtp port 126 465). This can be set with 'sendemail.smtpserverport'. 127 128--smtp-ssl:: 129 Legacy alias for '--smtp-encryption ssl'. 130 131--smtp-user:: 132 Username for SMTP-AUTH. Default is the value of 'sendemail.smtpuser'; 133 if a username is not specified (with '--smtp-user' or 'sendemail.smtpuser'), 134 then authentication is not attempted. 135 136 137Automating 138~~~~~~~~~~ 139 140--cc-cmd:: 141 Specify a command to execute once per patch file which 142 should generate patch file specific "Cc:" entries. 143 Output of this command must be single email address per line. 144 Default is the value of 'sendemail.cccmd' configuration value. 145 146--[no-]chain-reply-to:: 147 If this is set, each email will be sent as a reply to the previous 148 email sent. If disabled with "--no-chain-reply-to", all emails after 149 the first will be sent as replies to the first email sent. When using 150 this, it is recommended that the first file given be an overview of the 151 entire patch series. Default is the value of the 'sendemail.chainreplyto' 152 configuration value; if that is unspecified, default to --chain-reply-to. 153 154--identity:: 155 A configuration identity. When given, causes values in the 156 'sendemail.<identity>' subsection to take precedence over 157 values in the 'sendemail' section. The default identity is 158 the value of 'sendemail.identity'. 159 160--[no-]signed-off-by-cc:: 161 If this is set, add emails found in Signed-off-by: or Cc: lines to the 162 cc list. Default is the value of 'sendemail.signedoffbycc' configuration 163 value; if that is unspecified, default to --signed-off-by-cc. 164 165--suppress-cc:: 166 Specify an additional category of recipients to suppress the 167 auto-cc of. 'self' will avoid including the sender, 'author' will 168 avoid including the patch author, 'cc' will avoid including anyone 169 mentioned in Cc lines in the patch, 'sob' will avoid including 170 anyone mentioned in Signed-off-by lines, and 'cccmd' will avoid 171 running the --cc-cmd. 'all' will suppress all auto cc values. 172 Default is the value of 'sendemail.suppresscc' configuration value; 173 if that is unspecified, default to 'self' if --suppress-from is 174 specified, as well as 'sob' if --no-signed-off-cc is specified. 175 176--[no-]suppress-from:: 177 If this is set, do not add the From: address to the cc: list. 178 Default is the value of 'sendemail.suppressfrom' configuration 179 value; if that is unspecified, default to --no-suppress-from. 180 181--[no-]thread:: 182 If this is set, the In-Reply-To header will be set on each email sent. 183 If disabled with "--no-thread", no emails will have the In-Reply-To 184 header set. Default is the value of the 'sendemail.thread' configuration 185 value; if that is unspecified, default to --thread. 186 187 188Administering 189~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 190 191--dry-run:: 192 Do everything except actually send the emails. 193 194--quiet:: 195 Make git-send-email less verbose. One line per email should be 196 all that is output. 197 198--[no-]validate:: 199 Perform sanity checks on patches. 200 Currently, validation means the following: 201+ 202-- 203 * Warn of patches that contain lines longer than 998 characters; this 204 is due to SMTP limits as described by http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt. 205-- 206+ 207Default is the value of 'sendemail.validate'; if this is not set, 208default to '--validate'. 209 210--[no-]format-patch:: 211 When an argument may be understood either as a reference or as a file name, 212 choose to understand it as a format-patch argument ('--format-patch') 213 or as a file name ('--no-format-patch'). By default, when such a conflict 214 occurs, git send-email will fail. 215 216 217CONFIGURATION 218------------- 219 220sendemail.aliasesfile:: 221 To avoid typing long email addresses, point this to one or more 222 email aliases files. You must also supply 'sendemail.aliasfiletype'. 223 224sendemail.aliasfiletype:: 225 Format of the file(s) specified in sendemail.aliasesfile. Must be 226 one of 'mutt', 'mailrc', 'pine', or 'gnus'. 227 228sendemail.multiedit:: 229 If true (default), a single editor instance will be spawned to edit 230 files you have to edit (patches when '--annotate' is used, and the 231 summary when '--compose' is used). If false, files will be edited one 232 after the other, spawning a new editor each time. 233 234 235Author 236------ 237Written by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> 238 239git-send-email is originally based upon 240send_lots_of_email.pl by Greg Kroah-Hartman. 241 242 243Documentation 244-------------- 245Documentation by Ryan Anderson 246 247 248GIT 249--- 250Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite