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Re: [PATCH] add new options to git format-patch: --cover-subject and --cover-blurb

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Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
Date
Feb 5, 2010, 22:26 UTC
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<201002051526.18205.wjl@icecavern.net>
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<1265405973-5670-1-git-send-email-larry@elder-gods.org>
On Friday 05 February 2010 14:39:33 Larry D'Anna wrote:
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> This is useful because if you're preparing a patch series with a cover
>  letter you can easily put together one line to format and email the
>  whole thing to yourself.  You check to make sure everything is right,
>  and then just change the recipient address and run it again.
> 
> git send-email --to my@mydomain.org  master..HEAD --cover-letter \
>     --cover-subject "this is my patch series" --cover-blurb "$(cat
>  blurb.txt)"

One (minor?) issue is that the cover blub would be limited to the maximum allowed length of the command-line arguments set by the shell or OS. Since you are just catting a file, maybe "--cover-blub-file" would be better?

Just a thought.
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  1. add new options to git format-patch: --cover-subject and --cover-blurbLarry D'Anna, Feb 5, 2010
  2. Wesley J. LandakerFeb 5, 2010
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 5, 2010
  4. Wesley J. LandakerFeb 5, 2010
  5. Larry D'AnnaFeb 5, 2010
  6. Larry D'AnnaFeb 5, 2010
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 6, 2010
  8. Jonathan NiederFeb 6, 2010

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