SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git send-email' [options] <file|directory|rev-list options>...
+'git send-email' [<options>] <file|directory|rev-list options>...
'git send-email' --dump-aliases
the value of GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT, or GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT if that is not
set, as returned by "git var -l".
+--reply-to=<address>::
+ Specify the address where replies from recipients should go to.
+ Use this if replies to messages should go to another address than what
+ is specified with the --from parameter.
+
--in-reply-to=<identifier>::
Make the first mail (or all the mails with `--no-thread`) appear as a
reply to the given Message-Id, which avoids breaking threads to
Specify encoding of compose message. Default is the value of the
'sendemail.composeencoding'; if that is unspecified, UTF-8 is assumed.
---transfer-encoding=(7bit|8bit|quoted-printable|base64)::
+--transfer-encoding=(7bit|8bit|quoted-printable|base64|auto)::
Specify the transfer encoding to be used to send the message over SMTP.
7bit will fail upon encountering a non-ASCII message. quoted-printable
can be useful when the repository contains files that contain carriage
returns, but makes the raw patch email file (as saved from a MUA) much
harder to inspect manually. base64 is even more fool proof, but also
- even more opaque. Default is the value of the `sendemail.transferEncoding`
- configuration value; if that is unspecified, git will use 8bit and not
- add a Content-Transfer-Encoding header.
+ even more opaque. auto will use 8bit when possible, and quoted-printable
+ otherwise.
++
+Default is the value of the `sendemail.transferEncoding` configuration
+value; if that is unspecified, default to `auto`.
--xmailer::
--no-xmailer::
--batch-size=<num>::
Some email servers (e.g. smtp.163.com) limit the number emails to be
- sent per session (connection) and this will lead to a faliure when
+ sent per session (connection) and this will lead to a failure when
sending many messages. With this option, send-email will disconnect after
sending $<num> messages and wait for a few seconds (see --relogin-delay)
and reconnect, to work around such a limit. You may want to
auto-cc of:
+
--
-- 'author' will avoid including the patch author
-- 'self' will avoid including the sender
+- 'author' will avoid including the patch author.
+- 'self' will avoid including the sender.
- 'cc' will avoid including anyone mentioned in Cc lines in the patch header
except for self (use 'self' for that).
- 'bodycc' will avoid including anyone mentioned in Cc lines in the
patch body (commit message) except for self (use 'self' for that).
- 'sob' will avoid including anyone mentioned in Signed-off-by lines except
- for self (use 'self' for that).
+ for self (use 'self' for that).
+- 'misc-by' will avoid including anyone mentioned in Acked-by,
+ Reviewed-by, Tested-by and other "-by" lines in the patch body,
+ except Signed-off-by (use 'sob' for that).
- 'cccmd' will avoid running the --cc-cmd.
-- 'body' is equivalent to 'sob' + 'bodycc'
+- 'body' is equivalent to 'sob' + 'bodycc' + 'misc-by'.
- 'all' will suppress all auto cc values.
--
+
+
--
* Invoke the sendemail-validate hook if present (see linkgit:githooks[5]).
- * Warn of patches that contain lines longer than 998 characters; this
- is due to SMTP limits as described by http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt.
+ * Warn of patches that contain lines longer than
+ 998 characters unless a suitable transfer encoding
+ ('auto', 'base64', or 'quoted-printable') is used;
+ this is due to SMTP limits as described by
+ http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5322.txt.
--
+
Default is the value of `sendemail.validate`; if this is not set,
one of 'always', 'never', 'cc', 'compose', or 'auto'. See `--confirm`
in the previous section for the meaning of these values.
-EXAMPLE
--------
+EXAMPLES
+--------
Use gmail as the smtp server
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To use 'git send-email' to send your patches through the GMail SMTP server,
If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail account, you will
need to generate an app-specific password for use with 'git send-email'. Visit
-https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to setup an
-app-specific password. Once setup, you can store it with the credentials
-helper:
-
- $ git credential fill
- protocol=smtp
- host=smtp.gmail.com
- username=youname@gmail.com
- password=app-password
-
+https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to create it.
Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the
following commands:
$ edit outgoing/0000-*
$ git send-email outgoing/*
+The first time you run it, you will be prompted for your credentials. Enter the
+app-specific or your regular password as appropriate. If you have credential
+helper configured (see linkgit:git-credential[1]), the password will be saved in
+the credential store so you won't have to type it the next time.
+
Note: the following perl modules are required
Net::SMTP::SSL, MIME::Base64 and Authen::SASL