doc/git-howto: expand format-patch and send-email notes.

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git format-patch <commit> [-o directory]
will generate a set of patches out of the current branch starting from
commit. By default the patches are created in the current directory.
will generate a set of patches for each commit between <commit> and
current HEAD. E.g.
git format-patch origin/master
will generate patches for all commits on current branch which are not
present in upstream.
A useful shortcut is also
git format-patch -n
which will generate patches from last n commits.
By default the patches are created in the current directory.
11. Sending patches for review
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will send the patches created by git format-patch or directly generates
them. All the email fields can be configured in the global/local
configuration or overridden by command line.
Note that this tool must often be installed separately (e.g. git-email
package on Debian-based distros).
12. Pushing changes to remote trees