Merge branch 'di/fast-import-blob-tweak'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 7ec9dabe6815f2b8ff03048043e1cfd81cd19fcc..327233c85b4cb9af07b8866b055a83d25b21b569 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ git-send-email - Send a collection of patches as emails
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
+[verse]
 'git send-email' [options] <file|directory|rev-list options>...
 
 
@@ -348,11 +349,12 @@ sendemail.confirm::
        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
@@ -360,22 +362,19 @@ Add the following section to the config file:
                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
 ---