Merge branch 'ab/send-email-transferencoding-fix'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index cf4e3d99bc896f466c12c138eccc0cb241aa3a8a..a861934c69213a790fd96cf065043d5394a0332b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ This is what linkgit:git-format-patch[1] generates.  Most headers and MIME
 formatting are ignored.
 
 2. The original format used by Greg Kroah-Hartman's 'send_lots_of_email.pl'
-script
+   script
 +
 This format expects the first line of the file to contain the "Cc:" value
 and the "Subject:" of the message as the second line.
@@ -190,7 +190,9 @@ $ git send-email --smtp-auth="PLAIN LOGIN GSSAPI" ...
 If at least one of the specified mechanisms matches the ones advertised by the
 SMTP server and if it is supported by the utilized SASL library, the mechanism
 is used for authentication. If neither 'sendemail.smtpAuth' nor `--smtp-auth`
-is specified, all mechanisms supported by the SASL library can be used.
+is specified, all mechanisms supported by the SASL library can be used. The
+special value 'none' maybe specified to completely disable authentication
+independently of `--smtp-user`
 
 --smtp-pass[=<password>]::
        Password for SMTP-AUTH. The argument is optional: If no
@@ -204,6 +206,9 @@ or on the command line. If a username has been specified (with
 specified (with `--smtp-pass` or `sendemail.smtpPass`), then
 a password is obtained using 'git-credential'.
 
+--no-smtp-auth::
+       Disable SMTP authentication. Short hand for `--smtp-auth=none`
+
 --smtp-server=<host>::
        If set, specifies the outgoing SMTP server to use (e.g.
        `smtp.example.com` or a raw IP address).  Alternatively it can
@@ -329,16 +334,19 @@ Automating
        auto-cc of:
 +
 --
-- 'author' will avoid including the patch author
-- 'self' will avoid including the sender
+- 'author' will avoid including the patch author.
+- 'self' will avoid including the sender.
 - 'cc' will avoid including anyone mentioned in Cc lines in the patch header
   except for self (use 'self' for that).
 - 'bodycc' will avoid including anyone mentioned in Cc lines in the
   patch body (commit message) except for self (use 'self' for that).
 - 'sob' will avoid including anyone mentioned in Signed-off-by lines except
-   for self (use 'self' for that).
+  for self (use 'self' for that).
+- 'misc-by' will avoid including anyone mentioned in Acked-by,
+  Reviewed-by, Tested-by and other "-by" lines in the patch body,
+  except Signed-off-by (use 'sob' for that).
 - 'cccmd' will avoid running the --cc-cmd.
-- 'body' is equivalent to 'sob' + 'bodycc'
+- 'body' is equivalent to 'sob' + 'bodycc' + 'misc-by'.
 - 'all' will suppress all auto cc values.
 --
 +
@@ -412,7 +420,7 @@ have been specified, in which case default to 'compose'.
                        998 characters unless a suitable transfer encoding
                        ('auto', 'base64', or 'quoted-printable') is used;
                        this is due to SMTP limits as described by
-                       http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt.
+                       http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5322.txt.
 --
 +
 Default is the value of `sendemail.validate`; if this is not set,