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Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] format-patch: add format.cover-letter configuration

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 6, 2013, 12:43 UTC
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Felipe Contreras wrote:
> Also, add a new option: 'auto', so if there's more than one patch, the
> cover letter is generated, otherwise it's not.

Awesome! I wanted to fix this myself, but got sidetracked with the whole submodules thing.

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> +format.cover-letter::
> +       Allows to configure the --cover-letter option of format-patch by
> +       default. In addition, you can set it to 'auto' to automatically
> +       determine based on the number of patches (generate if there's more than
> +       one).
> +

Perhaps you can clarify this: Controls whether to generate a cover-letter when format-patch is invoked. Can be true, false, or auto. "auto" generates a cover-letter only when generating more than one patch.

Thanks.
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