specified on the command line, the user will be prompted with a ReadLine
enabled interface to provide the necessary information.
+There are two formats accepted for patch files:
+
+1. mbox format files
++
+This is what linkgit:git-format-patch[1] generates. Most headers and MIME
+formatting are ignored.
+
+2. The original format used by Greg Kroah-Hartman's 'send_lots_of_email.pl'
+script
++
+This format expects the first line of the file to contain the "Cc:" value
+and the "Subject:" of the message as the second line.
+
OPTIONS
-------
--suppress-cc::
Specify an additional category of recipients to suppress the
- auto-cc of. 'self' will avoid including the sender, 'author' will
- avoid including the patch author, 'cc' will avoid including anyone
- mentioned in Cc lines in the patch, 'sob' will avoid including
- anyone mentioned in Signed-off-by lines, and 'cccmd' will avoid
- running the --cc-cmd. 'all' will suppress all auto cc values.
- Default is the value of 'sendemail.suppresscc' configuration value;
- if that is unspecified, default to 'self' if --suppress-from is
- specified, as well as 'sob' if --no-signed-off-cc is specified.
+ auto-cc of:
+ +
+ --
+ - '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).
+ - 'ccbody' 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).
+ - 'cccmd' will avoid running the --cc-cmd.
+ - 'body' is equivalent to 'sob' + 'ccbody'
+ - 'all' will suppress all auto cc values.
+ --
+ +
+ Default is the value of 'sendemail.suppresscc' configuration value; if
+ that is unspecified, default to 'self' if --suppress-from is
+ specified, as well as 'body' if --no-signed-off-cc is specified.
--[no-]suppress-from::
If this is set, do not add the From: address to the cc: list.
Administering
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+ --confirm::
+ Confirm just before sending:
+ +
+ --
+ - 'always' will always confirm before sending
+ - 'never' will never confirm before sending
+ - 'cc' will confirm before sending when send-email has automatically
+ added addresses from the patch to the Cc list
+ - 'compose' will confirm before sending the first message when using --compose.
+ - 'auto' is equivalent to 'cc' + 'compose'
+ --
+ +
+ Default is the value of 'sendemail.confirm' configuration value; if that
+ is unspecified, default to 'auto' unless any of the suppress options
+ have been specified, in which case default to 'compose'.
+
--dry-run::
Do everything except actually send the emails.
summary when '--compose' is used). If false, files will be edited one
after the other, spawning a new editor each time.
+ sendemail.confirm::
+ Sets the default for whether to confirm before sending. Must be
+ one of 'always', 'never', 'cc', 'compose', or 'auto'. See '--confirm'
+ in the previous section for the meaning of these values.
+
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