From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:43:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] format-patch: add format.cover-letter configuration
Message-ID: <CALkWK0kMTt6wDv6sUVe9CbX-WSx=XH+PF6eQ6oXYFjcp_Yi+aQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1365239012-15079-3-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

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.

> +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.