From cc35de8470541e389b7d2bdda4c901574720fa81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Triplett Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:49:04 -0700 Subject: Add option to enable threading headers Add a --thread option to enable generation of In-Reply-To and References headers, used to make the second and subsequent mails appear as replies to the first. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index 4ca0014da..305bd7915 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-format-patch - Prepare patches for e-mail submission SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git-format-patch' [-n | -k] [-o | --stdout] [--attach] +'git-format-patch' [-n | -k] [-o | --stdout] [--attach] [--thread] [-s | --signoff] [--diff-options] [--start-number ] [..] @@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ they are created in the current working directory. If -n is specified, instead of "[PATCH] Subject", the first line is formatted as "[PATCH n/m] Subject". +If given --thread, git-format-patch will generate In-Reply-To and +References headers to make the second and subsequent patch mails appear +as replies to the first mail; this also generates a Message-Id header to +reference. OPTIONS ------- @@ -63,6 +67,10 @@ OPTIONS --attach:: Create attachments instead of inlining patches. +--thread:: + Add In-Reply-To and References headers to make the second and + subsequent mails appear as replies to the first. Also generates + the Message-Id header to reference. CONFIGURATION ------------- -- cgit v1.2.1