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diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index 71ef97ba9b..4f3efde80c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-send-email - Send a collection of patches as emails SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git send-email' [options] <file|directory|rev-list options>... +'git send-email' [<options>] <file|directory|rev-list options>... 'git send-email' --dump-aliases @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ must be used for each option. --batch-size=<num>:: Some email servers (e.g. smtp.163.com) limit the number emails to be - sent per session (connection) and this will lead to a faliure when + sent per session (connection) and this will lead to a failure when sending many messages. With this option, send-email will disconnect after sending $<num> messages and wait for a few seconds (see --relogin-delay) and reconnect, to work around such a limit. You may want to @@ -458,8 +458,8 @@ sendemail.confirm:: one of 'always', 'never', 'cc', 'compose', or 'auto'. See `--confirm` in the previous section for the meaning of these values. -EXAMPLE -------- +EXAMPLES +-------- Use gmail as the smtp server ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To use 'git send-email' to send your patches through the GMail SMTP server, @@ -473,16 +473,7 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail account, you will need to generate an app-specific password for use with 'git send-email'. Visit -https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to setup an -app-specific password. Once setup, you can store it with the credentials -helper: - - $ git credential fill - protocol=smtp - host=smtp.gmail.com - username=youname@gmail.com - password=app-password - +https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to create it. Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the following commands: @@ -491,6 +482,11 @@ following commands: $ edit outgoing/0000-* $ git send-email outgoing/* +The first time you run it, you will be prompted for your credentials. Enter the +app-specific or your regular password as appropriate. If you have credential +helper configured (see linkgit:git-credential[1]), the password will be saved in +the credential store so you won't have to type it the next time. + Note: the following perl modules are required Net::SMTP::SSL, MIME::Base64 and Authen::SASL |