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

> Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> writes:
> > It seems like everyone has written some sort of tooling on top of
> > format-patch at this point. Taking a cursory look at your tool, perhaps
> > a feature like `--previous-cover-letter <file>` might provide most of
> > the functionality that most tooling that I've seen gives.
> 
> This is a good idea. We can default <file> to the target cover letter
> (e.g., if -v2 is passed, v2-0000-cover-letter.patch or if
> --numbered-files is passed, 0) if present, or the previous series' cover
> letter.