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Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:25:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Mirko Faina Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King , Phillip Wood , Bert Wesarg Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/4] format-patch: add ability to use alt cover format In-Reply-To: (Mirko Faina's message of "Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:18:23 +0100") References: <225065cc0dd54d1a592939d41783a904a98fb2ad.1773331753.git.mroik@delayed.space> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:25:25 -0700 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 Mirko Faina writes: >> future developers to introduce something other than "shortlog", no? >> If the version of Git in 'next' supports "longlog" and user gives > > Not really, anyone can introduce new formats, it's just an additional if > statement. > >> "--cover-letter-format=longlog" to their version that does not yet >> support it, it would be mistaken by the version of the code here as >> a "log:longlog" without any placeholder that shows a fixed string >> "longlog" for each commit in the series? We'd rather want such an >> input to cause failure, no? > > Isn't that the same for any feature that is in next but not merged in > master yet? I wouldn't expect subcommands of history not yet merged in > master to work either if I'm using a version built from master. This is > an issue with the user and I don't think it's grounds for any issue. Or misspelt "chrnological". What are we gaining by removing it, which would rob safe extensibility (aka "future-proofing") and typo detection? It is a bad idea to drop "log:", period.