On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 06:16:28PM +0100, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote: > Replace "<branch>" with the current branch name for > [format] > subjectprefix = PATCH <branch> > > A subject-prefix given on the command-line overrides the one given in > the config. I don't have a big opinion on whether this feature is useful (it wouldn't be to me, but I can see workflows where it could be). I'm not sure that "current branch" makes sense, though. format-patch is about showing commits, and the current branch is not a property of that commit. It is about where you happen to be currently. So doing: git checkout X git format-patch Y..Z --subject-prefix "PATCH <branch>" shows "X" which is not really useful information. Something like git log's "--source" would be more useful; it shows the command-line ref that was used to reach a given commit. Also, please don't introduce a new substitution syntax. We already have code to do %-expansion. In fact, if you are going to do something like this, maybe it would be best as two patches: 1. Support '%B' as a user-format expansion for the --source branch. 2. Support user-format expansions in the subject prefix. But I don't know if people would find any of the other substitutions useful in the subject line. -Peff -- 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