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2009-03-17git-send-email.txt: describe --compose betterLibravatar Stephen Boyd1-7/+6
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-05Merge branch 'js/send-email'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+40
* js/send-email: send-email: add --confirm option and configuration setting send-email: don't create temporary compose file until it is needed send-email: --suppress-cc improvements send-email: handle multiple Cc addresses when reading mbox message send-email: allow send-email to run outside a repo
2009-03-02send-email: add --confirm option and configuration settingLibravatar Jay Soffian1-0/+21
send-email violates the principle of least surprise by automatically cc'ing additional recipients without confirming this with the user. This patch teaches send-email a --confirm option. It takes the following values: --confirm=always always confirm before sending --confirm=never never confirm before sending --confirm=cc confirm before sending when send-email has automatically added addresses from the patch to the Cc list --confirm=compose confirm before sending the first message when using --compose. (Needed to maintain backwards compatibility with existing behavior.) --confirm=auto 'cc' + 'compose' If sendemail.confirm is unconfigured, the option defaults to 'compose' if any suppress-Cc related options have been used, otherwise it defaults to 'auto'. Unfortunately, it is impossible to introduce this patch such that it helps new users without potentially annoying some existing users. We attempt to mitigate the latter by: * Allowing the user to set 'git config sendemail.confirm never' * Allowing the user to say 'all' after the first prompt to not be prompted on remaining emails during the same invocation. * Telling the user about the 'sendemail.confirm' setting if it is unconfigured whenever we prompt due to Cc before sending. * Only prompting if no --suppress related options have been passed, as using such an option is likely to indicate an experienced send-email user. There is a slight fib in message informing the user of the sendemail.confirm setting and this is intentional. Setting 'auto' differs from leaving sendemail.confirm unset in two ways: 1) 'auto' obviously squelches the informational message; 2) 'auto' prompts when the Cc list has been expanded even in the presence of a --suppress related option, where leaving sendemail.confirm unset does not. This is intentional to keep the message simple, and to avoid adding another sendemail.confirm value ('auto-except-suppress'?). Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-18Documentation: Note file formats send-email acceptsLibravatar Todd Zullinger1-0/+13
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-14send-email: --suppress-cc improvementsLibravatar Jay Soffian1-8/+19
Since 6564828 (git-send-email: Generalize auto-cc recipient mechanism., 2007-12-25) we can suppress automatic Cc generation separately for each of the possible address sources. However, --suppress-cc=sob suppressed both SOB lines and body (but not header) Cc lines, contrary to the name. Change --suppress-cc=sob to mean only SOB lines, and add separate choices 'bodycc' (body Cc lines) and 'body' (both 'sob' and 'bodycc'). The option --no-signed-off-by-cc now acts like --suppress-cc=sob, which is not backwards compatible but matches the name of the option. Also update the documentation and add a few tests. Original patch by me. Revised by Thomas Rast, who contributed the documentation and test updates. Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-11Merge branch 'mh/maint-sendmail-cc-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
* mh/maint-sendmail-cc-doc: doc/git-send-email: mention sendemail.cc config variable
2009-01-07Merge branch 'mh/maint-sendmail-cc-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
* mh/maint-sendmail-cc-doc: doc/git-send-email: mention sendemail.cc config variable
2008-12-29doc/git-send-email: mention sendemail.cc config variableLibravatar Markus Heidelberg1-0/+1
This variable was added in 5f8b9fc (git-send-email: add a new sendemail.cc configuration variable, 2008-04-27), but is not yet refered to by the documentation. Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-27git-send-email.txt: move --format-patch paragraph to a proper locationLibravatar Adeodato Simó1-6/+6
When introducing --format-patch, its documentation was accidentally inserted in the middle of documentation for --validate. Signed-off-by: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-09Fix typos in documentationLibravatar Alexander Potashev1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potashev <aspotashev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-11git send-email: ask less questions when --compose is used.Libravatar Pierre Habouzit1-0/+9
When --compose is used, we can grab the From/Subject/In-Reply-To from the edited summary, let it be so and don't ask the user silly questions. The summary templates gets quite revamped, and includes the list of patches subjects that are going to be sent with this batch. When having a body full of empty lines, the summary isn't sent. Document that in the git-send-email manpage fully. Note: It doesn't deal with To/Cc/Bcc yet. Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-11git send-email: add --annotate optionLibravatar Pierre Habouzit1-0/+11
This allows to review every patch (and fix various aspects of them, or comment them) in an editor just before being sent. Combined to the fact that git send-email can now process revision lists, this makes git send-email and efficient way to review and send patches interactively. Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-11git send-email: interpret unknown files as revision listsLibravatar Pierre Habouzit1-1/+7
Filter out all the arguments git-send-email doesn't like to a git format-patch command, that dumps its content to a safe directory. Barf when a file/revision conflict occurs, allow it to be overriden --[no-]format-patch. Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-01send-email: signedoffcc -> signedoffbycc, but handle bothLibravatar Michael Witten1-1/+1
The documentation now mentions sendemail.signedoffbycc instead of sendemail.signedoffcc in order to match with the options --signed-off-by-cc; the code has been updated to reflect this as well, but sendemail.signedoffcc is still handled. Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-10-01Docs: send-email: Create logical groupings for man textLibravatar Michael Witten1-50/+69
The options are partitioned into more digestible groups. Within these groups, the options are sorted alphabetically. Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-10-01Docs: send-email: Remove unnecessary config variable descriptionLibravatar Michael Witten1-75/+16
The config variables are mentioned within the descriptions of the command line options with which they are associated. Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-10-01Docs: send-email: --chain_reply_to -> --[no-]chain-reply-toLibravatar Michael Witten1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-10-01send-email: change --no-validate to boolean --[no-]validateLibravatar Michael Witten1-2/+7
There is also now a configuration variable: sendemail[.<identity>].validate Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-10-01Docs: send-email: Man page option orderingLibravatar Michael Witten1-72/+66
Now the man page lists the options in alphabetical order (in terms of the 'main' part of an option's name). Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-10-01Docs: send-email's usage text and man page mention same optionsLibravatar Michael Witten1-8/+13
Specifically, boolean options are now listed in the form --[no-]option and both forms of documentation now consistently use --[no-]signed-off-by-cc Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-08-31Document sendemail.envelopesender configurationLibravatar Ask Bjørn Hansen1-0/+3
Signed-off-by: Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask@develooper.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-30Replace uses of "git-var" with "git var"Libravatar Todd Zullinger1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
Since the git-* commands are not installed in $(bindir), using "git-command <parameters>" in examples in the documentation is not a good idea. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to refer to each command using one hyphenated word. (There is no escaping it, anyway: man page names cannot have spaces in them.) This patch retains the dash in naming an operation, command, program, process, or action. Complete command lines that can be entered at a shell (i.e., without options omitted) are made to use the dashless form. The changes consist only of replacing some spaces with hyphens and vice versa. After a "s/ /-/g", the unpatched and patched versions are identical. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-25git-send-email: add support for TLS via Net::SMTP::SSLLibravatar Thomas Rast1-4/+12
We do this by handing over the Net::SMTP instance to Net::SMTP::SSL, which avoids Net::SMTP::TLS and its weird error checking. This trick is due to Brian Evins. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-08Docs: Use "-l::\n--long\n" format in OPTIONS sectionsLibravatar Stephan Beyer1-4/+8
The OPTIONS section of a documentation file contains a list of the options a git command accepts. Currently there are several variants to describe the case that different options (almost) do the same in the OPTIONS section. Some are: -f, --foo:: -f|--foo:: -f | --foo:: But AsciiDoc has the special form: -f:: --foo:: This patch applies this form to the documentation of the whole git suite, and removes useless em-dash prevention, so \--foo becomes --foo. Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-06documentation: move git(7) to git(1)Libravatar Christian Couder1-1/+1
As the "git" man page describes the "git" command at the end-user level, it seems better to move it to man section 1. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-19Document the sendemail.smtpserverport config variableLibravatar Kevin Ballard1-0/+3
Add sendemail.smtpserverport to the Configuration section of the git-send-email manpage. It should probably be referenced in the --smtp-server-port option as well. Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-11Merge branch 'mw/send-email'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+34
* mw/send-email: git-send-email: Better handling of EOF git-send-email: SIG{TERM,INT} handlers git-send-email: ssh/login style password requests
2008-02-05git-send-email: Generalize auto-cc recipient mechanism.Libravatar David Brown1-0/+11
There are a few options to git-send-email to suppress the automatic generation of 'Cc' fields: --suppress-from, and --signed-off-cc. However, there are other times that git-send-email automatically includes Cc'd recipients. This is not desirable for all development environments. Add a new option --suppress-cc, which can be specified one or more times to list the categories of auto-cc fields that should be suppressed. If not specified, it defaults to values to give the same behavior as specified by --suppress-from, and --signed-off-cc. The categories are: self - patch sender. Same as --suppress-from. author - patch author. cc - cc lines mentioned in the patch. cccmd - avoid running the cccmd. sob - signed off by lines. all - all non-explicit recipients Signed-off-by: David Brown <git@davidb.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-05git-send-email: ssh/login style password requestsLibravatar Michael Witten1-5/+34
Whilst convenient, it is most unwise to record passwords in any place but one's brain. Moreover, it is especially foolish to store them in configuration files, even with access permissions set accordingly. git-send-email has been amended, so that if it detects an smtp username without a password, it promptly prompts for the password and masks the input for privacy. Furthermore, the argument to --smtp-pass has been rendered optional. The documentation has been updated to reflect these changes. Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-26Documentation: add a bit about sendemail.to configurationLibravatar Mike Hommey1-0/+2
While there is information about this in the configuration section, it was missing in the options section. Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgitLibravatar Dan McGee1-1/+1
Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock Asciidoc configuration: @@ -149,7 +153,10 @@ # Inline macros. # Backslash prefix required for escape processing. # (?s) re flag for line spanning. -(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>\w(\w|-)*?):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])= + +# Explicit so they can be nested. +(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>(http|https|ftp|file|mailto|callto|image|link)):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])= + # Anchor: [[[id]]]. Bibliographic anchor. (?su)[\\]?\[\[\[(?P<attrlist>[\w][\w-]*?)\]\]\]=anchor3 # Anchor: [[id,xreflabel]] This default regex now matches explicit values, and unfortunately in this case gitlink was being matched by just 'link', causing the wrong inline macro template to be applied. By renaming the macro, we can avoid being matched by the wrong regex. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-18Fix some documentation typos.Libravatar Ralf Wildenhues1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-07send-email: apply --suppress-from to S-o-b and cc-cmdLibravatar Uwe Kleine-König1-2/+1
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> Cc: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-10-24git-send-email: add a new sendemail.to configuration variableLibravatar Miklos Vajna1-0/+3
Some projects prefer to receive patches via a given email address. In these cases, it's handy to configure that address once. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-26send-email --smtp-server-port: allow overriding the default portLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
You can use --smtp-server-port option to specify a port different from the default (typically, SMTP servers listen to smtp port 25 and ssmtp port 465). Users should be aware that sending auth info over non-ssl connections may be unsafe or just may not work at all depending on SMTP server config. Signed-off-by: Glenn Rempe <glenn@rempe.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-03send-email: Add support for SSL and SMTP-AUTHLibravatar Douglas Stockwell1-1/+34
Allows username and password to be given using --smtp-user and --smtp-pass. SSL use is flagged by --smtp-ssl. These are backed by corresponding defaults in the git configuration file. This implements Junio's 'mail identity' suggestion in a slightly more generalised manner. --identity=$identity, backed by sendemail.identity indicates that the configuration subsection [sendemail "$identity"] should take priority over the [sendemail] section for all configuration values. Signed-off-by: Douglas Stockwell <doug@11011.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-01Merge branch 'jp/send-email-cc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
* jp/send-email-cc: git-send-email --cc-cmd
2007-08-19Fix misspelling of 'suppress' in docsLibravatar Dave Watson1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-17git-send-email --cc-cmdLibravatar Joe Perches1-0/+9
This new option allows an arbitrary "cmd" to generate per patch file specific "Cc:"s. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-17Fix small typo in git send-email man page.Libravatar Sean Estabrooks1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-20Add GIT_EDITOR environment and core.editor configuration variablesLibravatar Adam Roben1-2/+2
These variables let you specify an editor that will be launched in preference to the EDITOR and VISUAL environment variables. The order of preference is GIT_EDITOR, core.editor, EDITOR, VISUAL. [jc: added a test and config variable documentation] Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-27git-send-email: make options easier to configure.Libravatar Adam Roben1-10/+14
This change makes git-send-email's behavior easier to modify by adding config equivalents for two more of git-send-email's flags. The mapping of flag to config setting is: --[no-]supress-from => sendemail.suppressfrom --[no-]signed-off-cc => sendemail.signedoffcc It renames the --threaded option to --thread/--no-thread; the config variable is also called sendemail.thread. Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-26git-send-email: Add --threaded optionLibravatar Adam Roben1-0/+7
The --threaded option controls whether the In-Reply-To header will be set on any emails sent. The current behavior is to always set this header, so this option is most useful in its negated form, --no-threaded. This behavior can also be controlled through the 'sendemail.threaded' config setting. Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-07War on whitespaceLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have crept in to our source files over time. There are a few files that need to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors). The results still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-04-30send-email documentation: clarify --smtp-serverLibravatar Jari Aalto1-3/+4
It can be either hostname/address, or a full path to a local executable. Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-25Document --dry-run and envelope-sender for git-send-email.Libravatar Robin H. Johnson1-0/+9
Catch the documentation up with the rest of this patchset. Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-18Make git-send-email aware of Cc: lines.Libravatar J. Bruce Fields1-1/+2
In the Linux kernel, for example, it's common to include Cc: lines for cases when you want to remember to cc someone on a patch without necessarily claiming they signed off on it. Make git-send-email aware of these. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-11git-send-email: configurable bcc and chain-reply-toLibravatar Avi Kivity1-1/+9
Chain-reply-to is a personal perference, and is unlikely to change from patchset to patchset. Similarly, bcc is likely to have the same values every invocation is one likes to bcc oneself. So, allow both to be set via configuration variables. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-11git-send-email: Document configuration optionsLibravatar Avi Kivity1-0/+13
Wishing to implement an email aliases file, I found that they were already implmented. Document them for the next user. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>