Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.11

[Brian Inglis <Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca>]

On 2016-08-25 08:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 25 08:38, Brian Inglis wrote:
> > On 2016-08-25 02:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > You don't need mailx, btw.  After you created your patch with
> > > `git format-patch', you can send it with `git send-email' :)
> >
> > Looked for that, and everything there, but:
> >
> > $ uname -srvmo
> > CYGWIN_NT-10.0 2.5.2(0.297/5/3) 2016-06-23 14:29 x86_64 Cygwin
> > $ git --version
> > git version 2.8.3
> > $ man git | fgrep git-send-email
> >        git-send-email(1)
> > $ git help send-email
> > No manual entry for gitsend-email
> > $ git help git-send-email
> > No manual entry for git-send-email
> > $ man git-send-email
> > No manual entry for git-send-email
> > $ ls -1 /usr/share/man/man1/git* | wc -l
> > 143
> > $ ls /usr/share/man/man1/git-send-email*
> > ls: cannot access '/usr/share/man/man1/git-send-email*': No such file or directory
> > $ git send-email
> > git: 'send-email' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
>
> Huh?  WJFFM:
>
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-10.0 vmbert10 2.6.0(0.304/5/3) 2016-08-25 14:03 x86_64 Cygwin
> $ cygcheck -c git
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package              Version        Status
> git                  2.8.3-1        OK
> $ git --version
> git version 2.8.3
> $ ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/git-send-email*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 corinna vinschen 6835 May 24 18:55 /usr/share/man/man1/git-send-email.1.gz
> $ man git send-email
> GIT-SEND-EMAIL(1)                 Git Manual                 GIT-SEND-EMAIL(1)
> NAME
>        git-send-email - Send a collection of patches as emails
> SYNOPSIS
>        git send-email [options] <file|directory|rev-list options>...
>        git send-email --dump-aliases
> $ git send-email
> No patch files specified!
> git send-email [options] <file | directory | rev-list options >
> git send-email --dump-aliases

Eric pointed out that git-email is a separate package,
as I now find is git-completion, and others...
Hatess them, preciouss...

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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