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Re: [PATCH] send-email: ignore files ending with ~

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ACAlexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 4, 2013, 02:43 UTC
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On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It certainly happened to a lot of people already: you carefully prepare
>> your set of patches, export them using format-patch --cover-letter,
>> write your cover letter, and send the set like this:
>>
>> $ git send-email --to=somerenowneddeveloper --to=myfutureemployer
>>   --cc=thismailinglistiwanttoimpress 00*
>
> Why don't you use 00*.patch ? That seems dubious to me to ignore files
> specified on the command line.

For the same reason I do not list all the patches individually on the command line: laziness.

The goal of this patch is in no way to argue that using send-email like this is a recommandable way. It just adds a safeguard on a use-case that is probably not so uncommon.

Alex.
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  1. send-email: ignore files ending with ~Alexandre Courbot, Feb 3, 2013
  2. Antoine PelisseFeb 3, 2013
  3. Alexandre CourbotFeb 4, 2013

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