From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 09:03:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] format-patch: add format.cover-letter configuration
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In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s0rsWCZE=MyW3zuBoVM5ZtEGQQb+deQJB5-i6tBzFdTfw@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> Users know how to count, if the default is no cover-letter, then doing
> --cover-letter=auto is basically --cover-letter, unless they don't
> know how to count and thought --cover-letter=auto would do something.
> The same is true is they configured coverletter=true.

The user who says "format-patch origin" does not necessarily have to
count beforehand with "rev-list origin..", so "Users know how to
count" does not sound like a relevant and convincing argument to me.