On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> So, I'm a user that does 'git format-patch --cover-letter=auto origin' >> so I don't have the format.coverletter=auto configuration. Why? Why am >> I not setting that configuration, and why am I running >> --cover-letter=auto? > > The command may well be ran from a script or alias. Wouldn't this work for both cases? % git -c format.coverletter=auto format-patch > It is good in > general to give the user/script writer a simple way to get predictible > behavior regardless of the configuration. Predictable means when the user does X, (s)he would know what would be the outcome. But if the user never does X, it doesn't matter. -- Felipe Contreras -- 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