On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Norbert Kiesel <nkiesel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use `git format-patch master..myBranch` quite a bit to send patches
> to other developers. I also add notes to the commits
> so that I e.g. remember which patches were emailed to whom. `git log`
> has an option to automatically include the notes in
> the output. However, I can't find such an option for `git
> format-patch`. Am I missing something?
I assume you mean _config_ option here (format-patch has had a --notes
command-line option since v1.8.1). AFAICS, there's no config option
that corresponds to the format-patch --notes command-line option.
You can easily alias or script your way around this, e.g.:
git config alias.fp 'format-patch --notes'
This creates a 'git fp' command that does what you want, I believe.
Alternatively, if you need more control/automation of the resulting
patches, you can write a script to edit the output files from
format-patch. Currently, I don't believe there is any format-patch
hook available to automatically trigger such a script, but, again,
that can be achieved with an alias.
If you believe a config option would be a useful addition for more
users than yourself, I am sure the community welcomes patches adding
a format.notes config option.
> Another nice option would to to somehow include the branch name in the
> resulting output. Right now I use either notes
> or abuse the `--subject` option for this.
>From git-config(1):
branch.<name>.description
Branch description, can be edited with git branch
--edit-description. Branch description is automatically added
in the format-patch cover letter or request-pull summary.
...Johan
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Johan Herland, <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
www.herland.net