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Re: git send-email -v n fails

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 2, 2017, 16:35 UTC
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Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> writes:
> I think send-email should understand all options of format-patch.

I actually think it was a mistake to allow send-email drive format-patch ;-).

> At least for '-v n' this fails, one has to type '--reroll-count n' as a
> workaround with git version 2.13.3:

I wonder if "-v2" would work here, though. It seems that the hack send-email uses to "understand" format-patch options (i.e. the subroutine is_format_patch_arg) is not prepared to take an option with parameter.

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