Re: Including branch info in git format-patch

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 05:06:17PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> > the project's convention what to do with it.  The side branch the patch
> > was developed on may be named "quick-hack", which would not have any
> > relevance to the final location of where that patch wants to be in.
> 
> I suspect you would do better to look at branch.quick-hack.merge, so
> that you say "this was based on upstream's X", not "this is my
> quick-hack".
> 
> But there are so many ways this could go wrong, since the patches you're
> formatting might not even have anything to do with the branch you're on.

Side note: if you have a particular workflow, it might make sense,
rather than using format-patch directly, to codify that workflow in
another script which says "ok, this is how I grab a branch and send it
upstream". And in that case, you could look up "here's where I branched
from" and feed it into the patch via format-patch's --subject-prefix
option.

-Peff