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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Cc: "Oswald Buddenhagen" <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>,
	"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>, "Taylor Blau" <me@ttaylorr.com>,
	"Derrick Stolee" <derrickstolee@github.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] format-patch: add --description-file option
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 12:01:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq7coet6vm.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a1920050-bedc-49d4-840d-350b8fd3c003@app.fastmail.com> (Kristoffer Haugsbakk's message of "Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:14:28 +0200")

"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <code@khaugsbakk.name> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 21, 2023, at 19:07, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>> This patch makes it possible to directly feed a branch description to
>> derive the cover letter from. The use case is formatting dynamically
>> created temporary commits which are not referenced anywhere.
>
> Thanks for implementing this. I've just written cover letter text in
> separate files and copied them into the generated files every time. (I
> don't use branch descriptions.) I've wanted some convenient way to feed
> these messages in, and if I end up writing a cover letter again I'll most
> probably be using this new option.

Thanks for a positive feedback.  The changes is already in 'master'
since the beginning of this month or so and its way to be part of
the next release, I believe.



  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-25 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-07 17:09 [PATCH RESEND] format-patch: add --description-file option Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-08  6:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-09 17:15   ` [PATCH v2] " Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-11 21:38     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-11 22:29       ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-12  8:21         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-13  8:22           ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-21 17:07       ` [PATCH v3] " Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-21 17:59         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-21 22:05         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-23 20:01           ` Taylor Blau
2023-09-23 22:14         ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-09-25 19:01           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-09-25 19:29             ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk

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