From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:41:46 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Enable setting attach as the default in .gitconfig for git-format-patch. Message-ID: <7v3aenrrtx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <498E50E2.8050309@codeweavers.com> Jeremy White writes: > diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt > index 11a7d77..2e8e94e 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt > @@ -174,7 +174,8 @@ CONFIGURATION > ------------- > You can specify extra mail header lines to be added to each message > in the repository configuration, new defaults for the subject prefix > -and file suffix, and number patches when outputting more than one. > +and file suffix, control attachements, and number patches when outputting > +more than one. > > ------------ > [format] > @@ -183,6 +184,7 @@ and file suffix, and number patches when outputting more than one. > suffix = .txt > numbered = auto > cc = > + attach [ = mime-boundary-string ] > ------------ Once you added this configuration, if you ever wanted to defeat it for a single invocation, how would you do so? Edit the configuration file again? Not that I am objecting to the patch, as I am unlikely to have such a configuration, but are there people who need to send attachment sometimes but not other times? They can say --attach from the command line without adding the configuraiton if they send their patch non-attached more often than as an attachment, but if they most of the time need to attach but sometimes need to send in-line, they do not have an easy way to do so.