From: Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:26:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add new options to git format-patch: --cover-subject and --cover-blurb
Message-ID: <201002051526.18205.wjl@icecavern.net>
In-Reply-To: <1265405973-5670-1-git-send-email-larry@elder-gods.org>

On Friday 05 February 2010 14:39:33 Larry D'Anna wrote:
> 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.