* Junio C Hamano (gitster@xxxxxxxxx) [100205 17:33]:
> The placeholder in particular and the cover letter itself in general are
> meant to be edited. I do not see much point in forcing people to edit yet
> another file and have them specify with an cover-blurb option.
>
> Not very interested.
Yes, they're meant to be edited, but if you look at the steps required to submit
a series with cover letter, it's clear it could be a bit streamlined:
1) make your branch
2) git format-patch --cover-letter
3) edit the cover letter
3) review the series, and realize you need to fix something, fix it.
4) git format-patch --cover-letter again
5) edit the cover letter, *again*. hopefully you didn't overwrite the old one.
6) git send-email --to myself
7) one last look over it in my inbox
8) git send-email --to the list
The whole thing is a lot less annoying and error-prone if you can have
git-send-email call git-format-patch.
Besides, you're not forcing anyone to edit an extra file. If you leave out
--cover-subject or --cover-blurb it just behaves in exactly the same way it
always did.
--larry
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