From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 05:12:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/8] format-patch: introduce --confirm-overwrite
Message-ID: <609a124a3cdd6_5b0e12081c@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <87tunaf54u.fsf@Inspiron.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>

Firmin Martin wrote:
> 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.

That's a good idea.

Actually I don't see any reason why by default it isn't
0000-v2-cover-letter.patch.

If it was it would diminish the need to warn people before overwriting
0000-cover-letter.patch.

-- 
Felipe Contreras