Merge branch 'ph/submodule-rebase' (early part)

[git.git] / Documentation / git-send-email.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index f7e428eb50292e2a186cd903fa4610f446c3890f..e7cb0e6c71e84c896ecf2d232c906c5cb0de6b08 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ SYNOPSIS
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 Takes the patches given on the command line and emails them out.
+Patches can be specified as files, directories (which will send all
+files in the directory), or directly as a revision list.  In the
+last case, any format accepted by linkgit:git-format-patch[1] can
+be passed to git send-email.
 
 The header of the email is configurable by command line options.  If not
 specified on the command line, the user will be prompted with a ReadLine
@@ -70,9 +74,12 @@ Missing From or In-Reply-To headers will be prompted for.
 See the CONFIGURATION section for 'sendemail.multiedit'.
 
 --from=<address>::
-       Specify the sender of the emails.  This will default to
-       the value GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT, as returned by "git var -l".
-       The user will still be prompted to confirm this entry.
+       Specify the sender of the emails.  If not specified on the command line,
+       the value of the 'sendemail.from' configuration option is used.  If
+       neither the command line option nor 'sendemail.from' are set, then the
+       user will be prompted for the value.  The default for the prompt will be
+       the value of GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT, or GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT if that is not
+       set, as returned by "git var -l".
 
 --in-reply-to=<identifier>::
        Specify the contents of the first In-Reply-To header.
@@ -265,7 +272,7 @@ sendemail.aliasesfile::
 
 sendemail.aliasfiletype::
        Format of the file(s) specified in sendemail.aliasesfile. Must be
-       one of 'mutt', 'mailrc', 'pine', or 'gnus'.
+       one of 'mutt', 'mailrc', 'pine', 'elm', or 'gnus'.
 
 sendemail.multiedit::
        If true (default), a single editor instance will be spawned to edit