From: "Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern.net>
To: "Larry D'Anna" <larry@elder-gods.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add new options to git format-patch: --cover-subject and --cover-blurb
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:26:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201002051526.18205.wjl@icecavern.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1265405973-5670-1-git-send-email-larry@elder-gods.org>
On Friday 05 February 2010 14:39:33 Larry D'Anna wrote:
> This is useful because if you're preparing a patch series with a cover
> letter you can easily put together one line to format and email the
> whole thing to yourself. You check to make sure everything is right,
> and then just change the recipient address and run it again.
>
> git send-email --to my@mydomain.org master..HEAD --cover-letter \
> --cover-subject "this is my patch series" --cover-blurb "$(cat
> blurb.txt)"
One (minor?) issue is that the cover blub would be limited to the maximum
allowed length of the command-line arguments set by the shell or OS. Since
you are just catting a file, maybe "--cover-blub-file" would be better?
Just a thought.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-05 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-05 21:39 [PATCH] add new options to git format-patch: --cover-subject and --cover-blurb Larry D'Anna
2010-02-05 22:26 ` Wesley J. Landaker [this message]
2010-02-05 22:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-05 22:53 ` Wesley J. Landaker
2010-02-05 23:00 ` Larry D'Anna
2010-02-05 22:59 ` Larry D'Anna
2010-02-06 1:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-06 19:13 ` Jonathan Nieder
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