From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 19:16:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] format-patch: automate cover letter range-diff
Message-ID: <CACsJy8D=6fAEpO5m4cc7KZyggAW1AosSkUWaunQBFH0nr-YrdA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180530080325.37520-1-sunshine@sunshineco.com>

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:03 AM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> Dscho recently implemented a 'tbdiff' replacement as a Git builtin named
> git-branch-diff[1] which computes differences between two versions of a
> patch series. Such a diff can be a useful aid for reviewers when
> inserted into a cover letter. However, doing so requires manual
> generation (invoking git-branch-diff) and copy/pasting the result into
> the cover letter.

Another option which I wanted to go is delegate part of cover letter
generation to a hook (or just a config key that contains a shell
command). This way it's easier to customize cover letters. We could
still have a good fallback that does shortlog, diffstat and tbdiff.
-- 
Duy