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From: "Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add new options to git format-patch: --cover-subject and --cover-blurb
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:53:27 -0700
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On Friday 05 February 2010 15:33:23 Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The placeholder in particular and the cover letter itself in general are
> meant to be edited.  I do not see much point in forcing people to edit
>  yet another file and have them specify with an cover-blurb option.
> 
> Not very interested.

The original use-case is also pretty close to just doing the following:

$ git format-patch master..HEAD --cover-letter 
$ vi 0000-cover-letter.patch
$ git send-email --to my@mydomain.org *.patch
$ git send-email --to git@vger.kernel.org *.patch

Isn't that just as easy as the proposed --cover-* options?