From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 10:37:57 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] format-patch: Add config option format.coverbodytext to change the cover letter body Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1420486105-30242-1-git-send-email-sbeller@google.com> Stefan Beller writes: > When sending out patch series one of the last things doing is writing > the cover letter. The cover letter would be a good place to remind > people to check the todo list for sending patches. I do not quite understand. Wouldn't a check-list be useful _before_ you start series of things (I am assuming that you meant a list like 1. run spell check; 2. run checkpatch; 3. run full test suite; 4. format the docs for HTML and manpage)? Time to write cover letter (or running format-patch in general) is way too late for many of these things. There may be a check-list that is still useful after commits to be sent are perfect and ready to be formatted. "Describe change since the last round after three-dash line." would be one of them ("Sign-off the patch" is not---without one, the commits would not have been perfect yet). But for such a check-list, wouldn't we want remainder not only on the cover but on each individual patch? Perhaps --add-header="x-reminder: what changed since the last?" would be sufficient for your purpose instead?