From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Re: Idea: "git format-patch" should get more information out of git Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 08:21:17 +0200 Message-ID: <4E59DE5D.60906@alum.mit.edu> References: <4E587CC0.4090508@alum.mit.edu> <7vippiaduw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4E595521.7080208@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King , Johan Herland , Jonathan Nieder To: Michael J Gruber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 28 08:21:50 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QxYkf-0004q0-Q0 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 08:21:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750826Ab1H1GVi (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Aug 2011 02:21:38 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:39952 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750778Ab1H1GVh (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Aug 2011 02:21:37 -0400 X-Envelope-From: mhagger@alum.mit.edu Received: from [192.168.69.134] (p54BEA689.dip.t-dialin.net [84.190.166.137]) (authenticated bits=0) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id p7S6LIE1010707 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 28 Aug 2011 08:21:18 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110805 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.12 In-Reply-To: <4E595521.7080208@drmicha.warpmail.net> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang_at_IN-Berlin_e.V. on 192.109.42.8 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 08/27/2011 10:35 PM, Michael J Gruber wrote: > My current setup is: > > A. I put the additional per commit info in notes. "git format-patch > --notes" takes it from there and adds it where it belongs. > > B. I put series title and cover letter text into a ref note. "git branch > --notes" displays them as a branch note, and "git format-patch --cover > --notes" fills in the cover letter for me. Very cool. I will check this out. Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/