On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 11:45 PM Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > My flow looks like this: > > 2. vi <dir>/v<n-1>-0000-cover-letter.patch <dir>/v<n>-0000-cover-letter.patch > > copy subject and blurb, avoiding patchset stats > > 3. add changelog update blurb as appropriate > > > > The following perl script automates step 2 above. > > Neat. I wonder, should "git format-patch" learn an option for this? > git format-patch -v<n> --cover-letter \ > --last-cover-letter=<dir>/v<n-1>-0000-cover-letter.patch \ > -o <dir> That was my first thought, as well, although, as this has similar purpose to the new git-format-patch --cover-from-description= option, perhaps a more suitable name might be --copy-cover-from= or something? I could even imagine a new option -V<n> which has the combined effect of setting the re-roll count (like -v) and automagically copying the cover letter material from cover letter v<n-1> located in <dir>.
