one of 'always', 'never', 'cc', 'compose', or 'auto'. See '--confirm'
in the previous section for the meaning of these values.
-
+EXAMPLE
+-------
Use gmail as the smtp server
-----------------------------
-
-Add the following section to the config file:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+To use 'git send-email' to send your patches through the GMail SMTP server,
+edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:
[sendemail]
smtpencryption = tls
smtpuser = yourname@gmail.com
smtpserverport = 587
-Note: the following perl modules are required
- Net::SMTP::SSL, MIME::Base64 and Authen::SASL
-
+Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the
+following commands:
-Author
-------
-Written by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
+ $ git format-patch --cover-letter -M origin/master -o outgoing/
+ $ edit outgoing/0000-*
+ $ git send-email outgoing/*
-git-send-email is originally based upon
-send_lots_of_email.pl by Greg Kroah-Hartman.
-
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Ryan Anderson
+Note: the following perl modules are required
+ Net::SMTP::SSL, MIME::Base64 and Authen::SASL
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkgit:git-format-patch[1], linkgit:git-imap-send[1], mbox(5)
GIT
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