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Re: [PATCH] send-email: Refuse to send cover-letter template subject

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 9, 2009, 19:00 UTC
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Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> writes:
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>> Good ;-).  More valuable to detect would be an empty "blurb" section
>> (i.e. not "unedited *** BLURB HERE ***" string, but literally, there is
>> nothing said in the message other than the shortstat).
>
> My mail "[PATCH 0/6] fixes for git-send-email" had an empty blurb
> section because it didn't need any additional description.
> I wouldn't want git to refuse sending it.
I actually wouldn't have wanted to see that [0/6] with empty description.

If the list of 6 patch titles give clear enough description of the theme of the whole series, you would not need [0/6] to set the stage, and that is the best kind of series. For your send-email patches, you certainly chose very good titles for them.

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Message 7 of 8 in “send-email: Refuse to send cover-letter template subject”
  1. send-email: Refuse to send cover-letter template subjectThomas Rast, Jun 8, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 8, 2009
  3. Thomas RastJun 9, 2009
  4. Thomas RastJun 12, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoJun 12, 2009
  6. Markus HeidelbergJun 9, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 9, 2009
  8. Markus HeidelbergJun 9, 2009

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