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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] format-patch: introduce format.defaultTo
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 10:42:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqlhythrzq.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389028732-27760-3-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com> (Ramkumar Ramachandra's message of "Mon, 6 Jan 2014 22:48:52 +0530")

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> A very common workflow for preparing patches involves working off a
> topic branch and generating patches against 'master' to send off to the
> maintainer. However, a plain
>
>   $ git format-patch -o outgoing
>
> is a no-op on a topic branch,...

Two points.

 - why is a single branch name sufficient?

 - is it a better option to simply default to @{u}, if one exists,
   instead of failing?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-06 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-06 17:18 [PATCH 0/2] Minor convinience feature: format.defaultTo Ramkumar Ramachandra
2014-01-06 17:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] completion: complete format.coverLetter Ramkumar Ramachandra
2014-01-07 11:24   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2014-01-06 17:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] format-patch: introduce format.defaultTo Ramkumar Ramachandra
2014-01-06 18:35   ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-01-06 19:02     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2014-01-06 18:42   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-01-06 18:49     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2014-01-06 20:06       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-06 20:18         ` Jeff King
2014-01-06 20:29           ` John Szakmeister
2014-01-06 20:42             ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-01-06 21:13               ` John Szakmeister
2014-01-06 21:37                 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-06 22:54                 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2014-01-07  0:42                   ` John Szakmeister
2014-01-07 16:47                     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2014-01-06 20:43             ` Jeff King
2014-01-06 20:38           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-06 20:55             ` Jeff King
2014-01-06 21:21               ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-06 22:10           ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2014-01-07 20:56             ` Jeff King
2014-01-07 21:07               ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-07 21:24                 ` Jeff King
2014-01-07 22:06                   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-07 22:17                     ` Jeff King
2014-01-07 22:27                       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-10 19:17             ` Felipe Contreras
2014-01-06 21:59         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2014-01-06 22:22           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-06 22:47             ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2014-01-07 21:06               ` Jeff King
2014-01-07 21:25                 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2014-01-07 21:30                   ` Jeff King
2014-04-10 19:20                   ` Felipe Contreras
2014-01-06 17:25 ` [PATCH 0/2] Minor convinience feature: format.defaultTo Ramkumar Ramachandra

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