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

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Apr 7, 2013, 14:50 UTC
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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. It is good in general to give the user/script writer a simple way to get predictible behavior regardless of the configuration.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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