What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) git format-patch --inline ... --to=linux-man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx git format-patch --no-attach ... --to=linux-man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx git send-email ... --to=linux-man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) linux-man maintainer would get patches inline not in attachments as expected What happened instead? (Actual behavior) linux-man maintainer got patches in MIME attachments which he could not use What's different between what you expected and what actually happened? using format-patch either --inline or --no-attach would send patches inline need to remember to specify format-patch --inline --no-attach for every patch there is no way to set config format.inline format.attach=no Anything else you want to add: initially found format.attach set in /etc/gitconfig and no way to override would be great if linux-man maintainer could set repo config format.inline format.attach=no [System Info] git version: git version 2.39.0 cpu: x86_64 no commit associated with this build sizeof-long: 8 sizeof-size_t: 8 shell-path: /bin/sh uname: CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19044 3.4.6-1.x86_64 2023-02-14 13:23 UTC x86_64 compiler info: gnuc: 11.3 libc info: newlib 4.3.0 $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/bash [Enabled Hooks]