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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
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        Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>,
        Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] format-patch: add --description-file option
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Date:   Mon, 21 Aug 2023 10:59:33 -0700
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Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de> writes:

> 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.
>
> The most obvious alternative would be creating a temporary branch and
> setting a description on it, but that doesn't seem particularly elegant.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
> ---

The changed parts from the previous version all looked sensible.

Will replace and requeue.

Thanks.