Re: [PATCH 0/6] Bring "format-patch --notes" closer to a real feature

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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:45:22PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> We never advertised the "--notes" option to format-patch (or
> anything related to the pretty format options for that matter)
> because the behaviour of these options was whatever they happened to
> do, not what they were designed to do.
> 
> It had a few obvious glitches:
> 
>  * The notes section was appended immediately after the log message,
>    and then the three-dash line was added.  Such a supplimental
>    material should come after the three-dash line.
> 
>  * The logic to append a new sign-off with "format-patch --signoff"
>    worked on the message after the note was added, which made the
>    detection of existing sign-off lines incorrect.
> 
> This updates the handling of "--notes" option to correct these, in
> an attempt to bring it closer to a real feature.

I just read through the whole series. Aside from the tangent about
strbuf_detach, I didn't see anything wrong. Thanks for moving this
forward.

-Peff
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