Firmin Martin wrote: > Currently, git-format-patch, along with the option --cover-letter, > unconditionally overwrites a cover letter with the same name (if > present). Although this is a desired behaviour for patches which are > auto-generated from Git commits log, it might not be the case for a > cover letter whose the content is meticulously written manually. This is one of the reasons I never use git format-patch directly, but I use a tool on top: git send-series[1]. It would be nice if git format-patch grabbed the text of the body from somewhere, and even better if git branch learned --edit-cover-letter. None of this invalidates the usefulness of your patches, of course. Cheers. [1] https://github.com/felipec/git-send-series -- Felipe Contreras
