From: Mukund Sivaraman Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:55:13 GMT Subject: Re: Including branch info in git format-patch Message-ID: <20080619215512.GA29693@jurassic> In-Reply-To: <7vod5xrtjx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 02:41:54PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > My problem is that I can't send a patch out to the list for other > > developers to try, without some annotation for them, of which branch to > > try it on. > > So what's wrong telling that when you send out the patch, between the time > you run format-patch and send-email? > I had asked if there was some way the remote branch name could automatically be inserted by git format-patch, instead of manually adding it in the patch message or in a cover letter. What Jeff suggested seems good to me (of using --subject-prefix) as that is removed automatically when the patch is applied by git am. Mukund