From: Frank Terbeck Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 15:23:38 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] Add format.coverauto boolean Message-ID: <20090505152338.GD26208@fsst.voodoo.lan> In-Reply-To: <20090505132923.GC26208@fsst.voodoo.lan> Frank Terbeck : [...] > } % git config --global alias.fp format-patch --cover-letter That may still break backwards compatibility. To be safe, we could make --cover-letter behave as it always did, and only make it look at format.coverletter if --cover-letter=auto was specified. Regards, Frank