| Message ID | 4fcab0d3319fa47c2f4126139ca636d6848e9e3d.1712699815.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Superseded |
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| Series | docs: recommend using contrib/contacts/git-contacts | expand |
I don't think `git contacts` is available by default? ... $ git contacts git: 'contacts' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. ... ... $ git send-email --to=kipras@kipras.org --cc-cmd='git contacts' 0001-TEMP.patch 0001-TEMP.patch git: 'contacts' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. (cc-cmd) failed to close pipe to 'git contacts' at /opt/homebrew/opt/git/libexec/git-core/git-send-email line 2021. ...
Kipras Melnikovas <kipras@kipras.org> writes: > I don't think `git contacts` is available by default? Correct. It's a Perl script that lives under contrib/ in the git repo (it's not part of the core set of default Git subcommands that the "git" binary is built with). On Ubuntu it lives under /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/contacts/git-contacts [1]. [1] https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/amd64/git/filelist I could add a blurb about this to avoid confusion. Will update. > ... > $ git contacts > git: 'contacts' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. > ... > > ... > $ git send-email --to=kipras@kipras.org --cc-cmd='git contacts' 0001-TEMP.patch > 0001-TEMP.patch > git: 'contacts' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. > (cc-cmd) failed to close pipe to 'git contacts' at /opt/homebrew/opt/git/libexec/git-core/git-send-email line 2021. > ...
>> I don't think `git contacts` is available by default? > I could add a blurb about this to avoid confusion. Will update. Thanks, v4 looks good to me.
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index bafb1ee0157..57953898cee 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -413,6 +413,13 @@ trial merges of your topic to `next` and `seen`, you may have noticed work by others conflicting with your changes. There is a good possibility that these people may know the area you are touching well. +If you are using `send-email`, you can feed it the output of `git contacts` like +this: + +.... + git send-email --cc-cmd='git contacts' feature/*.patch +.... + :current-maintainer: footnote:[The current maintainer: gitster@pobox.com] :git-ml: footnote:[The mailing list: git@vger.kernel.org]