send-email is supposed to be able to run from outside a repo. This
ability was broken by commits caf0c3d6 (make the message file name more
specific) and 5df9fcf6 (interpret unknown files as revision lists).
This commit provides a fix for both.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>