Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] format-patch: add format.cover-letter configuration

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

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Apr 7, 2013, 16:03 UTC

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<vpqwqsefl9b.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>

> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> So, I'm a user that does 'git format-patch --cover-letter=auto origin'
>> so I don't have the format.coverletter=auto configuration. Why? Why am
>> I not setting that configuration, and why am I running
>> --cover-letter=auto?
>
> The command may well be ran from a script or alias.

Wouldn't this work for both cases?

% git -c format.coverletter=auto format-patch

> It is good in
> general to give the user/script writer a simple way to get predictible
> behavior regardless of the configuration.

-- 
Felipe Contreras