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Documentation: Note file formats send-email accepts
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Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Todd Zullinger authored and Junio C Hamano committed Feb 19, 2009
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Expand Up @@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ The header of the email is configurable by command line options. If not
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
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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
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This format expects the first line of the file to contain the "Cc:" value
and the "Subject:" of the message as the second line.


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