Use $GIT_EDITOR, core.editor, $VISUAL, or $EDITOR to edit an
introductory message for the patch series.
+
-When compose is in used, git send-email gets less interactive will use the
+When '--compose' is used, git send-email gets less interactive will use the
values of the headers you set there. If the body of the email (what you type
after the headers and a blank line) only contains blank (or GIT: prefixed)
lines, the summary won't be sent, but git-send-email will still use the
--[no-]validate::
Perform sanity checks on patches.
Currently, validation means the following:
-
---[no-]format-patch::
- When an argument may be understood either as a reference or as a file name,
- choose to understand it as a format-patch argument ('--format-patch')
- or as a file name ('--no-format-patch'). By default, when such a conflict
- occurs, git send-email will fail.
+
--
* Warn of patches that contain lines longer than 998 characters; this
Default is the value of 'sendemail.validate'; if this is not set,
default to '--validate'.
+--[no-]format-patch::
+ When an argument may be understood either as a reference or as a file name,
+ choose to understand it as a format-patch argument ('--format-patch')
+ or as a file name ('--no-format-patch'). By default, when such a conflict
+ occurs, git send-email will fail.
+
CONFIGURATION
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