Hi Felipe, 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]. This is good to know. As a newcomer to email-based workflow, I ignored how people use git format-patch/send-mail efficiently. > It would be nice if git format-patch grabbed the text of the body from > somewhere, In v2, I planned to grab the letter body from the cover letter subject to being overwritten. Maybe if such a letter doesn't exist, we can instead inherit the content of the cover letter from prior series. > 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 Thanks for your comment, Firmin
