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diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index ee14f74fd3..5a168cfab2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -348,10 +348,12 @@ sendemail.confirm:: one of 'always', 'never', 'cc', 'compose', or 'auto'. See '--confirm' in the previous section for the meaning of these values. +EXAMPLE +------- Use gmail as the smtp server ----------------------------- - -Add the following section to the config file: +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +To use 'git send-email' to send your patches through the GMail SMTP server, +edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: [sendemail] smtpencryption = tls @@ -359,9 +361,20 @@ Add the following section to the config file: smtpuser = yourname@gmail.com smtpserverport = 587 +Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the +following commands: + + $ git format-patch --cover-letter -M origin/master -o outgoing/ + $ edit outgoing/0000-* + $ git send-email outgoing/* + Note: the following perl modules are required Net::SMTP::SSL, MIME::Base64 and Authen::SASL +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:git-format-patch[1], linkgit:git-imap-send[1], mbox(5) + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |