Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: [...] > } % git config --global alias.fp format-patch --cover-letter That may still break backwards compatibility. To be safe, we could make --cover-letter behave as it always did, and only make it look at format.coverletter if --cover-letter=auto was specified. Regards, Frank -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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