$ sudo apt-get install git-email
Configure git.
# ~/.config/git/config [sendemail] confirm = auto smtpServer = smtp.gmail.com smtpServerPort = 587 smtpEncryption = tls smtpUser =
Configure Authentication. I believe the simplest setup is to create an application-specific password in Google dedicated to git.
Google Account -> Security -> Signing in to Google : App passwords This password must be configured in git, but should be kept outside of your main gitconfig (which is likely versioned via a dotfile repo?). To do that, I use git's [include] directive.
# ~/.config/git/config [include] path = config.local # (relative or absolute path to the other config file)
# ~/.config/git/config.local [sendemail] smtpPass =
Alternatively, check out https://github.com/google/gmail-oauth2-tools/tree/master/go/sendgmail which supports authenticating to GMail with OAuth2.
Determine your revlist. To send a single commit, just use the sha. To send a range of commits, you can use start_sha..end_sha. Most likely, you'll want to send the commits made to a branch that are missing in upstream. For that, you would use: upstream/branch_name..branch_name You can also use relative numbers to indicate the "previous X commits". e.g. git send-email -3
Send email:
git send-email --to
If you receive an error like this: Can't locate Net/SMTP/SSL.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ... You may need to upgrade/install the Net::SMTP::SSL or IO::Socket::SSL packages:
sudo -H cpan Net::SMTP::SSL sudo -H cpan IO::Socket::SSL
Advanced: configure multiple identites. You may configure multiple smtp servers and switch between them with identities.
[sendemail "gmail"] smtpUser = [email protected] smtpServer = smtp.gmail.com [sendemail "outlook"] smtpUser = [email protected] smtpServer = smtp.office365.com [sendemail] identity = outlook