Re: [PATCH] Add 'git format-patch --to=' option and 'format.to' configuration variable.

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 17, 2010, 08:14 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhbpg5lf0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1002171706290.5479@vqena.qenxr.bet.am>

Steven Drake <sdrake@xnet.co.nz> writes:

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> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> I tried to ask you (apparently in a garbled grammar, sorry) what
>> your workflow of sending the format-patch output to the outside world is.
>  
> $ ./git-format-patch --stdout master~5..master~1 >>~/mail/postponed-msgs
> $ alpine -I cp
>
> Only problem with doing that is that alpine changes the Date: and
>  Message-Id: header (the later being a pain if I used --threaded).

Finally. That is the kind of "how somebody would work with format-patch output" I was looking for. Thanks.

> ... I would understand if you wanted to deprecate '--cc' from
> format-patch and 'format.cc' (maybe keep it for backwards compat).

No, you took me wrong.  Deprecation wasn't what I was after.

I wanted to see ways to _positively_ explain what format.{cc,to} are good for. With them, we can eventually have a few examples in EXAMPLES section of the manual page to help users (hint, hint...).