Re : 2 questions on git-send-email usage

From: moreau francis <francis_moreau2000@yahoo.fr>
Date: Jul 11, 2006, 08:46 UTC
Message-ID: <20060711084635.81393.qmail@web25809.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

moreau francis wrote:

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> (please let me CCed when replying)
>  
>  2006/7/10, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
>  > moreau francis wrote:
>  > 
>  > > I'm wondering what am I supposed to answer when git-send-email
>  > > is asking me :
>  > >
>  > > Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the first email?
>  > >
>  > > I'm running this command:
>  > >
>  > > $ git-send-email --no-signed-off-by-cc --no-chain-reply-to --to \
>  > >   foo@bar.com --compose /tmp/patch/
>  > >
>  > > to write an introductory message, and all patches are sent as replies to
>  > > this introductory email sent.
>  > 
>  > Empty string (i.e. RET) should do if you don't want to attach your series of
>  > patches somewhere in existing thread.
>  
>  ok I'll try
>  
>  --in-reply-to ""

ok it works. But wouldn't it make more sense to have by default --in-reply-to "" when --compose is set ? That would mean "by default all patches are sent as replies to the email I'm composing" which is usely what happens, no ?

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>  > 
>  > > I also noticed that git-send-email removes the commit message of each
>  > > patches I sent, I don't think this is the normal behaviour though. What
>  > > am I missing ?
>  > 
>  > Are patches formatted using git-format-patch?
>  > 
>  
>  yes
>

I think I have found out a clue. The commit message and Signed-off-by are missing because the header patches are formatted like this:

>From 90df31ca209f85108976d18916f33f352a6ef340 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Francis <francis.moreau2000@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 09:51:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] step #3: interrupt implementation
(cherry picked from 427778e2e622cdefa2c834edcc19bf102a35bc2d commit)
(cherry picked from fe4692336801fcbb42bb734bb6b6f9c041d63087 commit)
Signed-off-by: Francis <francis_moreau2000@yahoo.fr>
---

2 RETs is missing. One after the Subject line and the other before the Signed-off-by line. If I add the first missing RET, all works fine. I guess it's missing because of git-cherry-pick command. But I don't understand why the last RET is missing

Can anybody tell me why ?

Thanks

Francis