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| author | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2011-04-14 21:33:57 -0500 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-04-15 13:28:03 -0700 |
| commit | 36c10e6d7543f9f35295df0113b0c250ad421eb4 (patch) | |
| tree | e9c98f63392bfc550c520c905120a8d2d844d657 /Documentation/git-send-email.txt | |
| parent | 967ab8efd7f294c05b57db600c4e548d7c4f8b2f (diff) | |
| download | git-36c10e6d7543f9f35295df0113b0c250ad421eb4.tar.gz git-36c10e6d7543f9f35295df0113b0c250ad421eb4.tar.xz | |
Documentation: publicize hints for sending patches with GMail
The hints in SubmittingPatches about stopping GMail from clobbering
patches are widely useful both as examples of "git send-email" and
"git imap-send" usage.
Move the documentation to the appropriate places.
While at it, don't encourage storing passwords in config files.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index ee14f74fd..5a168cfab 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -348,10 +348,12 @@ 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 @@ -359,9 +361,20 @@ Add the following section to the config file: smtpuser = yourname@gmail.com smtpserverport = 587 +Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the +following commands: + + $ git format-patch --cover-letter -M origin/master -o outgoing/ + $ edit outgoing/0000-* + $ git send-email outgoing/* + 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 --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |