From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 23:20:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] Add format.coverauto boolean
Message-ID: <7v8wlc4fqo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1241431142-8444-3-git-send-email-ft@bewatermyfriend.org>

Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org> writes:

> If set to true, format-patch behaves like it had been started
> using the --cover-letter option.

I thought "If this is set, you can run format-patch without giving an
explicit --cover-letter=foo from the command line" was already done with
the earlier format.coverletter configuration variable.  Why do you need a
separate variable?  It does not make any sense to me, unless I am missing
something.