Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
[...]
> By the way, this is not your fault at all, but for a patch series
> description, "shortlog" is a sucky way, as we can see below. When you
> talk about "patch #15", the reader cannot find which one you are talking
> about but has to go back to the MUA, so the list is useless for that
> purpose.
>
> The output of "shortlog" in an e-mail message is wonderful when you are a
> subsystem maintainer who bundles many people's work and are sending out a
> pull request (i.e. you are transferring the whole graph in "take it or
> reject all" fashion, and you can refer to an individual changeset with its
> commit object name).
>
> But I think a cover letter to a patch series should serve as an easy index
> from patch number to the title in some way, and "shortlog" is not suitable
> for that eapecially for a multi-author series.
Before git-send-email learned --cover option, I have used the
following commands to generate "Table of contents" for a patch series:
* generate patches to some subdirectory using '-o' option
of git-format-patch
* grep for subject and remove "Subject:" line:
$ grep -h "Subject:" mdir/* | sed -e 's/Subject://' >> mdir/0000-cover.txt
This way I had list of patches in the series in actual order...
P.S. Tay Ray Chuan, this patch series is again not being replies to
cover letter...
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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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