Re: [PATCH] format-patch: use raw format for notes

From: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Date: Sep 13, 2017, 00:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20170913003821.xn43yosuieoivmqk@tungsten.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kbcufMxbBdH=a9YzPWWet5nEdmUN6P+xmMEcGna-VL9=Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 10:33:37AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:

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> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > (If only there were a way to set the coverletter text automatically as
> > well...)
> >
> 
> Checkout branch.<name>.description

AH! I had seen this section of the format-patch man page...

       --[no-]cover-letter
           In addition to the patches, generate a cover letter file containing the branch description, shortlog and the overall diffstat. You can fill in a description in the file before
           sending it out.

... but I didn't realize that it meant that it would insert the text from branch.<name>.description into the cover letter. Perhaps there should be a hint to point you to the branch.<name>.description section of "git config"?

Also, it's not very useful for automating patch submission, as it doesn't set the subject line or remove the "*** BLURB HERE ***" marker, so it must still be post-processed.

(To be honest, I was surprised that it didn't use first line as the subject and leave out the markers.)

Cheers, Sam.