Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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, It does already. I use: git format-patch --cover-letter --cover-from-description=auto that takes both subject and text for cover letter from branch description. > and even better if git branch learned --edit-cover-letter. It reads: git branch --edit-description Works for me. -- Sergey Organov
