From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:23:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] format-patch: add ability to use alt cover format
Message-ID: <xmqq1pi6vmpo.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <190817fe6ac5199c6df95558a7dee4be3d2fffdd.1772156996.git.mroik@delayed.space>

Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space> writes:

> Example:
>     git format-patch --cover-letter \
>         --cover-letter-format="log:%s (%an)" HEAD~3
>
>     [1/3] this is a commit summary (Mirko Faina)
>     [2/3] this is another commit summary (Mirko Faina)
>     ...

Don't you need to update this example?  I personally find the
%(count)/%(total) thing a bit overengineered, but now we have it,
you'd need to write it in your forrmat string if you want to get the
[N/M] prefix, right?