On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:34:08PM +0100, Philip Oakley wrote: > diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt > index 85651b5..d918c53 100644 > --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt > +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt > @@ -1787,6 +1787,11 @@ $ git format-patch origin > will produce a numbered series of files in the current directory, one > for each patch in the current branch but not in origin/HEAD. > > +`git format-patch` can include an initial "cover letter". You can insert > +a commentary on individual patches using a three dash line after the > +commit message, and before the patch itself. `git format-patch --notes` > +(v1.8.1) will include the commit's notes in the similar manner. I'd rather not mention a version number here, as we do not yet know which version (if any) will contain the feature. Besides, we write our documentation to match the current version, so as long as this is queued on top of the new code, I do not see any reason to mention a version at all. I'll tweak it while queueing. -Peff -- 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