From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:27:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] improve doc heading for git-bisect
Message-ID: <20080608212757.GA8034@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806081600220.1783@racer>

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 04:01:48PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > I was going to suggest a "--paste" option for format-patch which would
> > produce a nicer output for cutting and pasting,
> 
> You still have to move the subject line where it belongs, so I think the 
> value of --paste is limited.  You do have to pay attention anyway (for 
> example when imitating how other people do it), so I think the current 
> state should be fine.

Not necessarily. I often end up posting patches like:

How about this?

-- >8 --
subject

body

---
diffstat

patch

but the --pretty=format recipe I provided works just fine for that.

-Peff