config for `format-patch --notes`?

Hi,

I use `git format-patch master..myBranch` quite a bit to send patches to other developers. I also add notes to the commits so that I e.g. remember which patches were emailed to whom. `git log` has an option to automatically include the notes in the output. However, I can't find such an option for `git format-patch`. Am I missing something?

Another nice option would to to somehow include the branch name in the resulting output. Right now I use either notes or abuse the `--subject` option for this.

</nk>

P.S.: Today I'm sad and proud to say "Ich bin ein Berliner!" --nk

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Norbert Kiesel <nkiesel@gmail.com> wrote:

I assume you mean _config_ option here (format-patch has had a --notes command-line option since v1.8.1). AFAICS, there's no config option that corresponds to the format-patch --notes command-line option.

You can easily alias or script your way around this, e.g.:

  git config alias.fp 'format-patch --notes'

This creates a 'git fp' command that does what you want, I believe.

Alternatively, if you need more control/automation of the resulting patches, you can write a script to edit the output files from format-patch. Currently, I don't believe there is any format-patch hook available to automatically trigger such a script, but, again, that can be achieved with an alias.

If you believe a config option would be a useful addition for more users than yourself, I am sure the community welcomes patches adding a format.notes config option.

From git-config(1):

    branch.<name>.description
        Branch description, can be edited with git branch
        --edit-description. Branch description is automatically added
        in the format-patch cover letter or request-pull summary.

...Johan