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2015-01-14Merge branch 'aw/doc-smtp-ssl-cert-path'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+9
A long overdue documentation update to match an age-old code update. * aw/doc-smtp-ssl-cert-path: correct smtp-ssl-cert-path description
2015-01-07Merge branch 'lh/send-email-hide-x-mailer'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
"git send-email" normally identifies itself via X-Mailer: header in the message it sends out. A new command line flag allows the user to squelch the header. * lh/send-email-hide-x-mailer: test/send-email: --[no-]xmailer tests send-email: add --[no-]xmailer option
2015-01-07correct smtp-ssl-cert-path descriptionLibravatar Adam Williamson1-4/+9
The git-send-email documentation was never updated to reflect the change made in 01645b74 to use the SSL library's default CA trust store rather than /etc/ssl/certs as a hardcoded default CApath. This corrects that, and also tweaks the rest of the text a bit to explain more accurately what is required for a valid CApath / CAfile. Signed-off-by: Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-12-15send-email: add --[no-]xmailer optionLibravatar Luis Henriques1-0/+5
Add --[no-]xmailer that allows a user to disable adding the 'X-Mailer:' header to the email being sent. Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@camandro.org> Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-25git-send-email: add --transfer-encoding optionLibravatar Paolo Bonzini1-0/+10
The thread at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/257392 details problems when applying patches with "git am" in a repository with CRLF line endings. In the example in the thread, the repository originated from "git-svn" so it is not possible to use core.eol and friends on it. Right now, the best option is to use "git am --keep-cr". However, when a patch create new files, the patch application process will reject the new file because it finds a "/dev/null\r" string instead of "/dev/null". The problem is that SMTP transport is CRLF-unsafe. Sending a patch by email is the same as passing it through "dos2unix | unix2dos". The newly introduced CRLFs are normally transparent because git-am strips them. The keepcr=true setting preserves them, but it is mostly working by chance and it would be very problematic to have a "git am" workflow in a repository with mixed LF and CRLF line endings. The MIME solution to this is the quoted-printable transfer enconding. This is not something that we want to enable by default, since it makes received emails horrible to look at. However, it is a very good match for projects that store CRLF line endings in the repository. The only disadvantage of quoted-printable is that quoted-printable patches fail to apply if the maintainer uses "git am --keep-cr". This is because the decoded patch will have two carriage returns at the end of the line. Therefore, add support for base64 transfer encoding too, which makes received emails downright impossible to look at outside a MUA, but really just works. The patch covers all bases, including users that still live in the late 80s, by also providing a 7bit content transfer encoding that refuses to send emails with non-ASCII character in them. And finally, "8bit" will add a Content-Transfer-Encoding header but otherwise do nothing. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-20Merge branch 'mt/send-email-cover-to-cc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+12
* mt/send-email-cover-to-cc: t9001: avoid non-portable '\n' with sed test/send-email: to-cover, cc-cover tests git-send-email: two new options: to-cover, cc-cover
2014-05-21Documentation: use "command-line" when used as a compound adjective, and fix ↵Libravatar Jason St. John1-3/+3
other minor grammatical issues Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-29git-send-email: two new options: to-cover, cc-coverLibravatar Michael S. Tsirkin1-0/+12
Allow extracting To/Cc addresses from the first patch (typically the cover letter), and use them as To/Cc addresses of the remainder of the series. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-18send-email: be explicit with SSL certificate verificationLibravatar Ramkumar Ramachandra1-0/+6
When initiating an SSL connection without explicitly specifying the SSL certificate verification mode, Net::SMTP::SSL defaults to no verification, but recent versions of the module gives a warning against this use of the default. Enable certificate verification by default, using /etc/ssl/certs as the default path for certificates of certificate authorities. This path can be overriden by the --smtp-ssl-cert-path command line option and the sendemail.smtpSSLCertPath configuration variable. Passing an empty string as the path for CA certificates path disables the SSL certificate verification explicitly, which does not trigger the warning from recent versions of Net::SMTP::SSL. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Helped-by: Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-07send-email: make annotate configurableLibravatar Felipe Contreras1-2/+3
Some people always do --annotate, lets not force them to always type that. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-27git-send-email: use git credential to obtain passwordLibravatar Michal Nazarewicz1-2/+2
If smtp_user is provided but smtp_pass is not, instead of prompting for password, make git-send-email use git credential command instead. Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01Documentation: avoid poor-man's small caps GITLibravatar Thomas Ackermann1-1/+1
In the earlier days, we used to spell the name of the system as GIT, to simulate as if it were typeset with capital G and IT in small caps. Later we stopped doing so at around 1.6.5 days. Let's stop doing so throughout the documentation. The name to refer to the whole system (and the concept it embodies) is "Git"; the command end-users type is "git". And document this in the coding guideline. Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-10git-send-email: introduce compose-encodingLibravatar Krzysztof Mazur1-0/+4
The introduction email (--compose option) have encoding hardcoded to UTF-8, but invoked editor may not use UTF-8 encoding. The encoding used by patches can be changed by the "8bit-encoding" option, but this option does not have effect on introduction email and equivalent for introduction email is missing. Added compose-encoding command line option and sendemail.composeencoding configuration option specify encoding of introduction email. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@podlesie.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-27send-email: document the --smtp-debug optionLibravatar Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek1-0/+4
The option was already shown in -h output, so it should be documented in the man page. Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> Suggested-by: David A. Greene <greened@obbligato.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-06Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sectionsLibravatar Martin von Zweigbergk1-0/+1
The SYNOPSIS sections of most commands that span several lines already use [verse] to retain line breaks. Most commands that don't span several lines seem not to use [verse]. In the HTML output, [verse] does not only preserve line breaks, but also makes the section indented, which causes a slight inconsistency between commands that use [verse] and those that don't. Use [verse] in all SYNOPSIS sections for consistency. Also remove the blank lines from git-fetch.txt and git-rebase.txt to align with the other man pages. In the case of git-rebase.txt, which already uses [verse], the blank line makes the [verse] not apply to the last line, so removing the blank line also makes the formatting within the document more consistent. While at it, add single quotes to 'git cvsimport' for consistency with other commands. Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-15Documentation: publicize hints for sending patches with GMailLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-3/+16
The hints in SubmittingPatches about stopping GMail from clobbering patches are widely useful both as examples of "git send-email" and "git imap-send" usage. Move the documentation to the appropriate places. While at it, don't encourage storing passwords in config files. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-11doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pagesLibravatar Jeff King1-15/+0
The point of these sections is generally to: 1. Give credit where it is due. 2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or file bug reports. But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer can be gotten through shortlog or blame. For (2), the correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody useless. So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section to give credit to the major contributors and point to shortlog and blame for more information. Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can follow that to the main git manpage.
2010-12-10Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
2010-12-10Add --force to git-send-email documentationLibravatar Alejandro R. Sedeño1-0/+3
Signed-off-by: Alejandro R. Sedeño <asedeno@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-12git-send-email.perl: make initial In-Reply-To apply only to first emailLibravatar Antonio Ospite1-5/+20
When an initial --in-reply-to is supplied, make it apply only to the first message; --[no-]chain-reply-to setting are honored by second and subsequent messages; this is also how the git-format-patch option with the same name behaves. Moreover, when $initial_reply_to is asked to the user interactively it is asked as the "Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the _first_ email", this makes the user think that the second and subsequent patches are not using it but are considered as replies to the first message or chained according to the --[no-]chain-reply setting. Look at the v2 series in the illustration to see what the new behavior ensures: (before the patch) | (after the patch) [PATCH 0/2] Here is what I did... | [PATCH 0/2] Here is what I did... [PATCH 1/2] Clean up and tests | [PATCH 1/2] Clean up and tests [PATCH 2/2] Implementation | [PATCH 2/2] Implementation [PATCH v2 0/3] Here is a reroll | [PATCH v2 0/3] Here is a reroll [PATCH v2 1/3] Clean up | [PATCH v2 1/3] Clean up [PATCH v2 2/3] New tests | [PATCH v2 2/3] New tests [PATCH v2 3/3] Implementation | [PATCH v2 3/3] Implementation This is the typical behaviour we want when we send a series with cover letter in reply to some discussion, the new patch series should appear as a separate subtree in the discussion. Also update the documentation on --in-reply-to to describe the new behavior. Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-26Merge branch 'jp/send-email-to-cmd'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+7
* jp/send-email-to-cmd: git-send-email.perl: Add --to-cmd Conflicts: git-send-email.perl
2010-09-27git-send-email.perl: Add --to-cmdLibravatar Joe Perches1-1/+7
Add the ability to use a command line --to-cmd=cmd to create the list of "To:" addresses. Used a shared routine for --cc-cmd and --to-cmd. Did not use IPC::Open2, leaving that for Ævar if ever he decides to fix the other bugs he might find. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-06New send-email option smtpserveroption.Libravatar Pascal Obry1-0/+9
The new command line parameter --smtp-server-option or default configuration sendemail.smtpserveroption can be used to pass specific options to the SMTP server. Update the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-27Merge branch 'tr/send-email-8bit'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
* tr/send-email-8bit: send-email: ask about and declare 8bit mails
2010-06-18send-email: ask about and declare 8bit mailsLibravatar Thomas Rast1-0/+9
git-send-email passes on an 8bit mail as-is even if it does not declare a content-type. Because the user can edit email between format-patch and send-email, such invalid mails are unfortunately not very hard to come by. Make git-send-email stop and ask about the encoding to use if it encounters any such mail. Also provide a configuration setting to permanently configure an encoding. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-08Merge branch 'bg/send-email-smtpdomain'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
* bg/send-email-smtpdomain: send-email: Cleanup smtp-domain and add config Document send-email --smtp-domain send-email: Don't use FQDNs without a '.' send-email: Cleanup { style
2010-05-04Documentation/git-send-email: Add "Use gmail as the smtp server"Libravatar Ping Yin1-0/+15
Signed-off-by: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> Acked by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-10send-email: Cleanup smtp-domain and add configLibravatar Brian Gernhardt1-1/+2
The way the code stored --smtp-domain was unlike its handling of other similar options. Bring it in line with the others by: - Renaming $mail_domain to $smtp_domain to match the command line option. Also move its declaration from near the top of the file to near other option variables. - Removing $mail_domain_default. The variable was used once and only served to move the default away from where it gets used. - Adding a sendemail.smtpdomain config option. smtp-domain was the only SMTP configuration option that couldn't be set in the user's .gitconfig. Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-10Document send-email --smtp-domainLibravatar Brian Gernhardt1-0/+6
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-26Merge branch 'jc/1.7.0-send-email-no-thread-default'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
* jc/1.7.0-send-email-no-thread-default: send-email: make --no-chain-reply-to the default Conflicts: git-send-email.perl
2009-11-30Merge branch 'fc/send-email-envelope'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+4
2009-11-27send-email: automatic envelope senderLibravatar Felipe Contreras1-3/+4
This adds the option to specify the envelope sender as "auto" which would pick the 'from' address. This is good because now we can specify the address only in one place in $HOME/.gitconfig and change it easily. [jc: added tests] Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-13add -i, send-email, svn, p4, etc: use "git var GIT_EDITOR"Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-2/+2
Use the new "git var GIT_EDITOR" feature to decide what editor to use, instead of duplicating its logic elsewhere. This should make the behavior of commands in edge cases (e.g., editor names with spaces) a little more consistent. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-22send-email: make --no-chain-reply-to the defaultLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
In http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/109790 I threatened to announce a change to the default threading style used by send-email to no-chain-reply-to (i.e. the second and subsequent messages will all be replies to the first one), unless nobody objected, in 1.6.3. Nobody objected, as far as I can dig the list archive. But when nothing happened in 1.6.3 nor 1.6.4, nobody from the camp who complained loudly that led to the message did not complain either. So I am guessing that after all nobody cares about this. But 1.7.0 is a good time to change this, and as I said in the message, I personally think it is a good change, so here it is. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-31Documentation: git-send-email: correct statement about standard portsLibravatar Wesley J. Landaker1-2/+3
The current documentation states that servers typically listen on port 465 and calls this "ssmtp". While it's true that many mail servers use port 465 for SSL smtp, this is non-standard, and hails from the days before smtp and submission TLS support, that arrived in RFC2487 and RFC3207. Port 465 is actually assigned by IANA for unrelated purposes, and is mostly still used by mail servers today only to support Outlook Express. In any case, this patch helps the documentation better reflect both standards and reality, while still helpfully mentioning ports numbers that a user may wish to specify. Signed-off-by: Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-31Documentation: git-send-email: fix submission port numberLibravatar Wesley J. Landaker1-1/+1
The current documentation confuses non-standard SSL smtp port 465 with submission port 587 (RFC 4406). This patch just changes the referenced number. Signed-off-by: Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-22Improve doc for format-patch threading options.Libravatar Yann Dirson1-5/+16
This hopefully makes the relationship between threading options of format-patch and send-email easier to grasp. Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-06-18Test cccmd in t9001-send-email.sh and fix some bugsLibravatar Paolo Bonzini1-2/+2
For another patch series I'm working on I needed some tests for the cc-cmd feature of git-send-email. This patch adds 3 tests for the feature and for the possibility to specify --suppress-cc multiple times, and fixes two bugs. The first bug is that the --suppress-cc option for `cccmd' was misspelled as `ccmd' in the code. The second bug, which is actually found only with my other series, is that the argument to the cccmd is never quoted, so the cccmd would fail with patch file names containing a space. A third bug I fix (in the docs) is that the bodycc argument was actually spelled ccbody in the documentation and bash completion. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> Cc: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-06-12Merge branch 'mh/maint-fix-send-email-threaded' into mh/fix-send-email-threadedLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
* mh/maint-fix-send-email-threaded: doc/send-email: clarify the behavior of --in-reply-to with --no-thread send-email: fix non-threaded mails add a test for git-send-email for non-threaded mails Conflicts: git-send-email.perl t/t9001-send-email.sh
2009-06-12doc/send-email: clarify the behavior of --in-reply-to with --no-threadLibravatar Markus Heidelberg1-2/+3
Also remove the argument from --[no-]chain-reply-to. Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-06-11Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
* maint: Documentation: git-send-mail can take rev-list arg to drive format-patch rebase--interactive: remote stray closing parenthesis
2009-06-11Documentation: git-send-mail can take rev-list arg to drive format-patchLibravatar Paolo Bonzini1-0/+4
The git-send-email docs do not mention except in the usage lines the combined patch formatting/sending ability of git-send-email. This patch expands on the possible arguments to git-send-email and explains the meaning of the rev-list argument. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-31Merge branch 'mw/send-email'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-12/+15
* mw/send-email: send-email: Remove superfluous `my $editor = ...' send-email: 'References:' should only reference what is sent send-email: Handle "GIT:" rather than "GIT: " during --compose Docs: send-email: --smtp-server-port can take symbolic ports Docs: send-email: Refer to CONFIGURATION section for sendemail.multiedit Docs: send-email: Put options back into alphabetical order
2009-05-13send-email: Add config option for sender addressLibravatar Trent Piepho1-3/+6
The sender address, as specified with the '--from' command line option, couldn't be set in the config file. So add a new config option, 'sendemail.from', which sets it. One can use 'sendemail.<identity>.from' as well of course, which is likely the more useful case. The sender address would default to GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT, which is usually the right thing, but this doesn't allow switching based on the identity selected. It's possible to switch the SMTP server and envelope sender by using the '--identity' option, in which case one probably wants to use a different from address as well, but this had to be manually specified. The documentation for 'from' is also corrected somewhat. If '--from' is specified (or the new sendemail.from option is used) then the user isn't prompted. The default with no '--from' option (or sendemail.from option) is GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT first then GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT, not just GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT. Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-22Add parsing of elm aliases to git-send-emailLibravatar Bill Pemberton1-1/+1
elm stores a text file version of the aliases that is <alias> = <comment> = <email address> This adds the parsing of this file to git-send-email Signed-off-by: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-14Docs: send-email: --smtp-server-port can take symbolic portsLibravatar Michael Witten1-1/+3
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-14Docs: send-email: Refer to CONFIGURATION section for sendemail.multieditLibravatar Michael Witten1-3/+4
Replace description of sendemail.multiedit in --annotate docs with a reference to the CONFIGURATION section. Add such a reference to the --compose documentation. Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-14Docs: send-email: Put options back into alphabetical orderLibravatar Michael Witten1-11/+11
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-07git-send-email.txt: clarify which options take an argument.Libravatar Matthieu Moy1-17/+17
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>