From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:46:21 GMT
Subject: Re: storing cover letter of a patch series?
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xodgeu6Vo+Rt57_iFycxkEnNjxP-TTOfY8DdXwzeVKbZg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqvbbi2jy5.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I hadn't thought of separating the cover letter from git-send-email.
>> That would be suitable for me.
>
> Yeah, I said this number of times over time, and I said it once
> recently in another thread, but I think it was a mistake to allow
> git-send-email to drive format-patch.  It may appear that it will
> make things convenient in the perfect world where no user makes
> mistakes, but people are not perfect in real life.  Expecting them
> to be is being naive.
>

Yep. I didn't even know cover-letter was an option of format-patch
only thought it was in send-email.

Regards,
Jake