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From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] format-patch: infer cover letter from branch description
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:29:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cS1xqO3w9dAmYpHSCJJyquWRhJgYOpasScafabGEYuVWg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5cc5e354b6d84609f3d1de087b3390488abe5343.1566182184.git.liu.denton@gmail.com>

On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 10:37 PM Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> wrote:
> We used to populate the subject of the cover letter generated by
> git-format-patch with "*** SUBJECT HERE ***". However, if a user submits
> multiple patchsets, they may want to keep a consistent subject between
> rerolls.
>
> If git-format-patch is run with `--infer-cover-letter` or
> `format.inferCoverSubject`, infer the subject for the cover letter from
> the top line(s) of a branch description, similar to how a subject is
> read from a commit message.
>
> Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/Documentation/config/format.txt b/Documentation/config/format.txt
> @@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ format.subjectPrefix::
> +format.inferCoverSubject::
> +       A boolean that controls whether or not to infer the subject for
> +       the cover letter based on the branch's description. See the
> +       --infer-cover-subject option in linkgit:git-format-patch[1].

What is the default value?

      reply	other threads:[~2019-08-19 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-19  2:37 [PATCH 0/3] format-patch: teach --infer-cover-subject option Denton Liu
2019-08-19  2:37 ` [PATCH 1/3] t4014: clean up style Denton Liu
2019-08-19 16:02   ` Eric Sunshine
2019-08-19  2:37 ` [PATCH 2/3] Doc: add more detail for git-format-patch Denton Liu
2019-08-19 17:09   ` Eric Sunshine
2019-08-19 23:16     ` Denton Liu
2019-08-20 19:01   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-19  2:37 ` [PATCH 3/3] format-patch: infer cover letter from branch description Denton Liu
2019-08-19 17:29   ` Eric Sunshine [this message]

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