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| author |  Josh Triplett <josht@us.ibm.com> | 2006-07-14 17:49:04 -0700 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-07-14 20:41:37 -0700 |
| commit | cc35de8470541e389b7d2bdda4c901574720fa81 (patch) | |
| tree | 7d79f1a5716f5ba170f2dea234b765f8bc7c976e /Documentation | |
| parent | git-format-patch: Make the second and subsequent mails replies to the first (diff) | |
| download | tgif-cc35de8470541e389b7d2bdda4c901574720fa81.tar.xz | |
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 <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index 4ca0014dac..305bd79154 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 <dir> | --stdout] [--attach] +'git-format-patch' [-n | -k] [-o <dir> | --stdout] [--attach] [--thread] [-s | --signoff] [--diff-options] [--start-number <n>] <since>[..<until>] @@ -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 ------------- |