From: Larry D'Anna <larry@elder-gods.org>
To: "Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add new options to git format-patch: --cover-subject and --cover-blurb
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 18:00:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100205230024.GB29821@cthulhu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201002051553.27315.wjl@icecavern.net>
* Wesley J. Landaker (wjl@icecavern.net) [100205 17:53]:
> 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?
Except when you decide you need to modify it after sending it to yourself.
--larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-05 23:00 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
2010-02-05 22:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-05 22:53 ` Wesley J. Landaker
2010-02-05 23:00 ` Larry D'Anna [this message]
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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