Some users find it easier to use their git sendmail setup over a local
MTA to deliver mail with the send-pull-request script. If you would
like to do this, please read the git-send-email man page and set
the relevant entries in your git config. In particular, be sure to
set sendemail.from to avoid being asked each time.
Reported-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
CC: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Some users experience problems viewing the pull requests as a sequential
mail series due to the script using the git commit date for the patches
and today's date for the cover letter.
Address this by renaming the email Date: header to Old-Date: and adding
a new Date: header with a current timestamp.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
Cc: Josh Lock <josh@linux.intel.com>
send-pull-request facilitates sending pull requests generated by
create-pull-request. The primary role of this script is to harvest email
addresses from the patches and send them out. A working installation of sendmail
(exim, postfix, msmtp, etc.) is required to use this script.
You can explicitly specify To addresses with the -t option. As this can be
tedious, the -a option will scan all the patches for To, CC, and *-by lines and
the collected addresses to the To and CC headers for each patch.
This script uses an identical recipients list for every patch, including the
cover letter. This is by design. Existing tools will auto-generate the CC header
for individual patches, but since they don't apply it to the other patches, the
recipients can lack the necessary context to provide a meaningful review. This
is especially true of the cover letter.
The pull directory generated by the create-pull-request script is specified
using the -p option.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
CC: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
CC: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
CC: Saul Wold <saul.wold@intel.com>
CC: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>
Darren Hart