RE: [PATCH v1 0/8] format-patch: introduce --confirm-overwrite

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 7, 2021, 01:46 UTC
Message-ID: <60949be8613c1_8c2220882@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <20210506165102.123739-1-firminmartin24@gmail.com>

Firmin Martin wrote:

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> Currently, git-format-patch, along with the option --cover-letter,
> unconditionally overwrites a cover letter with the same name (if
> present). Although this is a desired behaviour for patches which are
> auto-generated from Git commits log, it might not be the case for a
> cover letter whose the content is meticulously written manually.

This is one of the reasons I never use git format-patch directly, but I use a tool on top: git send-series[1].

It would be nice if git format-patch grabbed the text of the body from somewhere, and even better if git branch learned --edit-cover-letter.

None of this invalidates the usefulness of your patches, of course.

Cheers.

[1] https://github.com/felipec/git-send-series

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Felipe Contreras