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Re: git send-email: How to modify subject prefix?

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Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 24, 2009, 15:23 UTC
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On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:20, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:18, Constantine Plotnikov
> <constantine.plotnikov@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm interested how to modify subject prefix when sending patches using
>> git send-email. I want it to prefix the subject with [JGIT PATCH]
>> instead of [PATCH] and I have not found any option that allows it.
>
> The option is format-patch's --subject-prefix
>

Looking at the source for send-email, it would appear you can do the following if you don't want to run format-patch separately:

    git send-email $send_email_args -- $format_patch_args
That should be documented!
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