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
This will make all index entries racily clean. The linux-2.6
project, for example, there are over 20,000 files in the working
-tree. On my Athron 64X2 3800+, after the above:
+tree. On my Athlon 64 X2 3800+, after the above:
$ /usr/bin/time git diff-files
1.68user 0.54system 0:02.22elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k