Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> writes: > Dear diary, on Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 05:10:36AM CEST, I got a letter > where Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> said that... >> Please please please do not use --- between the cover letter and >> commit message body if you choose to do the cover letter first. > > Oops, I suspect that I'm a huge offender in this regard in that case. > Can I format my patch mails so that they look like natural replies _and_ > you can still apply them easily? It's not a big deal. I do it with scissors mark "-- >8 --" because I can use "git-am" while still in GNUS with '|' (gnus-summary-pipe-output) on the message, and immediately after that I can amend the commit with "git-commit --amend" to remove everything up to the scissors mark. If you have --- then I have to save the message in a separate file with 'C-o' (gnus-summary-save-article-mail), open the file and remove up to that first --- in the editor, and then run git-am on the file. Only when the cover letter is short, I'd prefer Linus style, which places cover letter material after the --- and the diffstat, although that makes the message like top-posting. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html