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diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index 05904e0e7f..ebc024ae3d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -82,11 +82,26 @@ See the CONFIGURATION section for 'sendemail.multiedit'. set, as returned by "git var -l". --in-reply-to=<identifier>:: - Specify the contents of the first In-Reply-To header. - Subsequent emails will refer to the previous email - instead of this if --chain-reply-to is set. - Only necessary if --compose is also set. If --compose - is not set, this will be prompted for. + Make the first mail (or all the mails with `--no-thread`) appear as a + reply to the given Message-Id, which avoids breaking threads to + provide a new patch series. + The second and subsequent emails will be sent as replies according to + the `--[no]-chain-reply-to` setting. ++ +So for example when `--thread` and `--no-chain-reply-to` are specified, the +second and subsequent patches will be replies to the first one like in the +illustration below where `[PATCH v2 0/3]` is in reply to `[PATCH 0/2]`: ++ + [PATCH 0/2] Here is what I did... + [PATCH 1/2] Clean up and tests + [PATCH 2/2] Implementation + [PATCH v2 0/3] Here is a reroll + [PATCH v2 1/3] Clean up + [PATCH v2 2/3] New tests + [PATCH v2 3/3] Implementation ++ +Only necessary if --compose is also set. If --compose +is not set, this will be prompted for. --subject=<string>:: Specify the initial subject of the email thread. |