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[v7,3/3] send-email docs: add format-patch options

Message ID 20211011041033.20004-4-tbperrotta@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series send-email: shell completion improvements | expand

Commit Message

Thiago Perrotta Oct. 11, 2021, 4:10 a.m. UTC
git-send-email(1) does not mention that "git format-patch" options are
accepted. Augment SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION to mention it.

Update git-send-email.perl USAGE to be consistent with
git-send-email(1).

Signed-off-by: Thiago Perrotta <tbperrotta@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 6 ++++--
 git-send-email.perl              | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 3db4eab4ba..41cd8cb424 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@  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>...
+'git send-email' [<options>] <format-patch options>
 'git send-email' --dump-aliases
 
 
@@ -19,7 +20,8 @@  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.
+be passed to git send-email, as well as options understood by
+linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
 
 The header of the email is configurable via command-line options.  If not
 specified on the command line, the user will be prompted with a ReadLine
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 587e52d1d8..850c572dec 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@  package main;
 
 sub usage {
 	print <<EOT;
-git send-email [options] <file | directory | rev-list options >
+git send-email' [<options>] <file|directory>
+git send-email' [<options>] <format-patch options>
 git send-email --dump-aliases
 
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