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Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:11:39 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: Jeff King Cc: Patrick Steinhardt , Mirko Faina , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] format-patch: fix From header in cover letter In-Reply-To: <20260219114307.GC3529@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:43:07 -0500") References: <20260216152730.37478-1-mroik@delayed.space> <20260217063400.GA101988@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20260219114307.GC3529@coredump.intra.peff.net> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:11:38 -0800 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Jeff King writes: >> I use it myself and I really hate the way it lists the patches. We >> should have done "log --oneline --reverse" instead of "shortlog", as >> it is hard to understand the reference the cover letter message >> makes to individual patches like "the first two patches do X", etc. > > Agreed. I have long hated the shortlog version. According to the commit > history of my personal scripts, I've been sending with: > > [1/3]: subject of the first patch > [2/3]: the second patch > [3/3]: and so on > > since at least 2009, and nobody has complained. ;) > ... > But anyway, if this were happening internally in format-patch's > cover-letter code, it should be quite easy to do (we have the complete > list of patches and their subjects there already). A good bite-sized #leftoverbits project for somebody relatively new to the codebase, perhaps. Thanks.