On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 10:33:37AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > (If only there were a way to set the coverletter text automatically as > > well...) > > > > Checkout branch.<name>.description AH! I had seen this section of the format-patch man page... --[no-]cover-letter In addition to the patches, generate a cover letter file containing the branch description, shortlog and the overall diffstat. You can fill in a description in the file before sending it out. ... but I didn't realize that it meant that it would insert the text from branch.<name>.description into the cover letter. Perhaps there should be a hint to point you to the branch.<name>.description section of "git config"? Also, it's not very useful for automating patch submission, as it doesn't set the subject line or remove the "*** BLURB HERE ***" marker, so it must still be post-processed. (To be honest, I was surprised that it didn't use first line as the subject and leave out the markers.) Cheers, Sam.