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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] series headers
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:23:09 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:56:48PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > And what is so wrong with
> > 
> > [insert before format-patch] $EDITOR my-cover-letter.txt
> > 
> > [replace $EDITOR 0000-cover-letter.txt] $EDITOR my-cover-letter.txt 
> > 	0000-cover-letter.patch
> > 
> > and paste the changed text?
> 
> Nothing is *wrong* with it per-se, but if you have multiple things that 
> you are working on at the same-time, you might not want to keep 
> 0000-cover-letter.patch in your working directory.

Ah, but then maybe you want to be able to say

	git format-patch --cover-letter=<my-cover-letter> [...]

Where your cover-letter file looks something like this:

	My patch series which will rule the world

	Here is the body, and I explain what the world should look like,
	and that they should accept me as the chosen one president of the
	united geekheads of this world.

IOW the file contents to produce what is produced with my patch would look 
like this:

	*** SUBJECT HERE ***

	*** BLURB HERE ***
Ciao,
Dscho