Currently, format-patch only accepts branch.<name>.description as a branch-specific configuration variable. However, there are many other options which would be useful to have on a branch-by-branch basis, namely cover letter subject and To: and Cc: headers. Teach format-patch to recognise these branch-specific configuration options. Note that this patchset[1] was created using these new configuration options: [branch "submitted/fix-revisions-txt"] coverSubject = "cleanup revisions.txt" cc = "Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@xxxxxxxxx>" cc = "Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx>" cc = "Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>" So this is a live example of this patchset working in practice. [1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/cover.1557072286.git.liu.denton@xxxxxxxxx/ Denton Liu (7): t4014: clean up style Doc: add more detail for git-format-patch branch.c: extract read_branch_config function format-patch: make cover letter subject configurable format-patch: move extra_headers logic later string-list: create string_list_append_all format-patch: read branch-specific To: and Cc: headers Documentation/config/branch.txt | 10 + Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 33 +- branch.c | 14 +- branch.h | 5 + builtin/log.c | 147 ++++-- string-list.c | 9 + string-list.h | 7 + t/t4014-format-patch.sh | 708 +++++++++++++++++------------ t/t9902-completion.sh | 5 +- 9 files changed, 590 insertions(+), 348 deletions(-) -- 2.21.0.1049.geb646f7864
