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Documentation: Note file formats send-email accepts
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/git-send-email.txt

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@@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ The header of the email is configurable by command line options. If not
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specified on the command line, the user will be prompted with a ReadLine
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enabled interface to provide the necessary information.
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There are two formats accepted for patch files:
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1. mbox format files
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This is what linkgit:git-format-patch[1] generates. Most headers and MIME
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formatting are ignored.
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2. The original format used by Greg Kroah-Hartman's 'send_lots_of_email.pl'
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script
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This format expects the first line of the file to contain the "Cc:" value
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and the "Subject:" of the message as the second line.
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