Re: [PATCH] add new options to git format-patch: --cover-subject and --cover-blurb

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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.
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