From: Larry D'Anna <larry@elder-gods.org>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:00:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add new options to git format-patch: --cover-subject and --cover-blurb
Message-ID: <20100205230024.GB29821@cthulhu>
In-Reply-To: <201002051553.27315.wjl@icecavern.net>

* Wesley J. Landaker (wjl@icecavern.net) [100205 17:53]:
> On Friday 05 February 2010 15:33:23 Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > The placeholder in particular and the cover letter itself in general are
> > meant to be edited.  I do not see much point in forcing people to edit
> >  yet another file and have them specify with an cover-blurb option.
> > 
> > Not very interested.
> 
> The original use-case is also pretty close to just doing the following:
> 
> $ git format-patch master..HEAD --cover-letter 
> $ vi 0000-cover-letter.patch
> $ git send-email --to my@mydomain.org *.patch
> $ git send-email --to git@vger.kernel.org *.patch
> 
> Isn't that just as easy as the proposed --cover-* options?

Except when you decide you need to modify it after sending it to yourself.  

       --larry