Re: [PATCH v1 0/8] format-patch: introduce --confirm-overwrite

From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Date: May 7, 2021, 14:02 UTC
Message-ID: <87sg2ybq0h.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>
In-Reply-To: <60949be8613c1_8c2220882@natae.notmuch>

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

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> Firmin Martin wrote:
>> Currently, git-format-patch, along with the option --cover-letter,
>> unconditionally overwrites a cover letter with the same name (if
>> present). Although this is a desired behaviour for patches which are
>> auto-generated from Git commits log, it might not be the case for a
>> cover letter whose the content is meticulously written manually.
>
> This is one of the reasons I never use git format-patch directly, but I
> use a tool on top: git send-series[1].
>
> It would be nice if git format-patch grabbed the text of the body from
> somewhere,

It does already. I use:

  git format-patch --cover-letter --cover-from-description=auto

that takes both subject and text for cover letter from branch description.

> and even better if git branch learned --edit-cover-letter.

It reads:

  git branch --edit-description

Works for me.

-- Sergey Organov