Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@xxxxxxx> writes: > I use this when I had to edit the file-being-sent, e.g. to add cover > letters or an introduction to a patch series. Since some time passes > between format-patch and send-email, I want to test that the file I'm > sending is exactly what I have in the repository, and that I'm not > submitting the wrong series. Ok, that is what I missed when I mentioned ignore-if-in-upstream, iow, I thought "patch-cmp" were merely to check for failed detection of duplicates by format-patch. If you are editing the mbox file and let the patches sit there while origin/master may be progressing, then that is an entirely different story. -- 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