From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Paolo Ciarrocchi" Subject: Re: Cover letter Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:13:46 +0100 Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30801080513q4402b776kfd587c7c558b1f8a@mail.gmail.com> References: <4d8e3fd30801080452g71c3d3dx39f2ec805239ef01@mail.gmail.com> <478375FB.405@isy.liu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Git Mailing List" To: "Gustaf Hendeby" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 08 14:14:19 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JCEHZ-00068Z-Df for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:14:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754349AbYAHNNu (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:13:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754281AbYAHNNt (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:13:49 -0500 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.226]:53975 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752092AbYAHNNt (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:13:49 -0500 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so1801508nze.1 for ; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:13:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=fMERGn6LFnUS6X+DIStG/zYzCITeULtc/jHhYa9Nx+E=; b=o01Hx99yBKUSOBqV+XFNu2zH9D/5apfk4gZcAbUQV2cg82VlkCjAVv2v9A2YMIuh1vcLnW9YBGG7Zpu2AAOf6aVrWQFcKs3P0Tq/+0h2sl+dqdaBRQM6ESUaknL6x63IPTJ5vzVxB7gv8LdDLb0HvaKTikPquQMKZ+NKF+UQH5A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=VtQNpW9BD7hWNCrRZJ6AuH80Q4S2VJsDtegBExbc/KYKSpzW4xI+vdHz3MKpO5qQgFF9KedVvrBD2p+WWvmxQj0rR7/O3C1Ts9pwGNQO7PaeeGplggPOYFvI0EP/nOPp0pdXKqBf1wGMOxAbv/DisvFrq4ElTNqemlacSCu9tgg= Received: by 10.142.105.14 with SMTP id d14mr998206wfc.67.1199798026112; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:13:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.143.162.9 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 05:13:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <478375FB.405@isy.liu.se> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Jan 8, 2008 2:09 PM, Gustaf Hendeby wrote: > > This is working fine but since I'm going to push out a queue of patches > > it would be nicer to script everything with git-send-email. > > > > I know I have to configure git in order to use the gmail's smtp server, > > I know how to tell git-send-email where to pick up the patches but I fail > > to understand how I can write a cover letter and let it be part of the patch > > queue. > > Use the switch --compose to git send-email, that should open up an > editor and let you write a cover letter to go with the patches. Not enough coffe :-) The option is there and well documented. Thanks Gustaf. Ciao, -- Paolo http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/