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author | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2018-07-26 16:27:01 +0800 |
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committer | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2018-07-26 16:32:58 +0800 |
commit | dce35bdf1fc374b652f8fae98e59a9d26e88ab61 (patch) | |
tree | ac17ca3a8e3dce2d717af2286e1137b08117d462 /notmuch-extract-patch.1.pod | |
parent | d7c56828c7e3890cd343435daa9bdef30184d4eb (diff) | |
download | mailscripts-dce35bdf1fc374b652f8fae98e59a9d26e88ab61.tar.gz |
notmuch-extract-patch: note assumption that there is only one series
Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
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diff --git a/notmuch-extract-patch.1.pod b/notmuch-extract-patch.1.pod index ee0c6f6..21095bc 100644 --- a/notmuch-extract-patch.1.pod +++ b/notmuch-extract-patch.1.pod @@ -26,6 +26,19 @@ None. =back +=head1 LIMITATIONS + +B<notmuch-extract-patch> assumes one patch series per query. So if +there is more than one patch series in a thread, you will need to +construct a notmuch query that includes only the patches you want to +extract, which somewhat defeats the purpose of this script. + +This should not happen often because best practices when sharing +patches with git-send-email(1) include starting a new thread when +posting a revised series. The I<--in-reply-to> option to +B<notmuch-extract-patch> is used mainly for posting a patch series in +reply to a bug report. + =head1 SEE ALSO notmuch(1), git-send-email(1) |