On Friday 05 February 2010 14:39:33 Larry D'Anna wrote: > This is useful because if you're preparing a patch series with a cover > letter you can easily put together one line to format and email the > whole thing to yourself. You check to make sure everything is right, > and then just change the recipient address and run it again. > > git send-email --to my@xxxxxxxxxxxx master..HEAD --cover-letter \ > --cover-subject "this is my patch series" --cover-blurb "$(cat > blurb.txt)" One (minor?) issue is that the cover blub would be limited to the maximum allowed length of the command-line arguments set by the shell or OS. Since you are just catting a file, maybe "--cover-blub-file" would be better? Just a thought. -- 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