From: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 02:43:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: ignore files ending with ~
Message-ID: <CAAVeFu+s4UqOxywKSviwkhc88qShfJRdEozfTt2ifpRm+=DwSA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALWbr2wCEHkVU86Dkzq1+mRx605h4LBo-5e8ySAwv=T0pMw62A@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.