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doc: contributing: Note '-v REVISION' bug in 'git send-email'. 

* doc/contributing.texi ("Submitting Patches")["Sending a Patch Series"]:
Note that a bug in 'git send-email' means '-v REVISION' (with a
space) will not work.

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@ -1471,6 +1471,12 @@ $ git send-email -1 -a --base=auto -v @var{REVISION} \
--to=@var{ISSUE_NUMBER}@@debbugs.gnu.org
@end example
@quotation Note
Due to an apparent bug in @command{git send-email},
@option{-v @var{REVISION}} (with the space) will not work; you
@emph{must} use @option{-v@var{REVISION}}.
@end quotation
You can find out @var{ISSUE_NUMBER} either by searching on the mumi
interface at @url{issues.guix.gnu.org} for the name of your patch or
reading the acknowledgement email sent automatically by Debbugs in