From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH] improve doc heading for git-bisect Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 17:27:58 -0400 Message-ID: <20080608212757.GA8034@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <20080607070637.79B17C7C0E@rwavmlap> <9af502e50806070906u63e52de4wa0bc4dced0c4d984@mail.gmail.com> <20080608043543.GB11194@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Robert Anderson , Jakub Narebski , Git Mailing List To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jun 08 23:28:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K5SRb-0005q7-IS for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:28:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755546AbYFHV2B (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 17:28:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755507AbYFHV2B (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 17:28:01 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:3588 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755538AbYFHV2A (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 17:28:00 -0400 Received: (qmail 15666 invoked by uid 111); 8 Jun 2008 21:27:59 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:27:59 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:27:58 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 04:01:48PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > I was going to suggest a "--paste" option for format-patch which would > > produce a nicer output for cutting and pasting, > > You still have to move the subject line where it belongs, so I think the > value of --paste is limited. You do have to pay attention anyway (for > example when imitating how other people do it), so I think the current > state should be fine. Not necessarily. I often end up posting patches like: How about this? -- >8 -- subject body --- diffstat patch but the --pretty=format recipe I provided works just fine for that. -Peff