From: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 21:40:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] format-patch stuff
Message-ID: <20070512214034.GD7184@planck.djpig.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7jtx01y.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 01:24:25PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> 
> > It would be nice if git-format-patch would generate a [PATCH 0/n] message 
> > at the start of the series if some option were given. This would, of 
> > course, have to be editted afterwards to include actual information, but 
> > it would at least be pre-generated in series and with the configured 
> > headers and such.
> 
> It would be helpful for git-send-email users.  I've done that by
> hand by copying 0001-*.txt to 0000-*.txt and editing as needed
> by hand.

But git-send-email users can already use --compose which serves
exactly this use case, doesn't it?

I would have thought such an option would be useful exactly for
git-send-email non-users ;)

Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
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