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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Robert Anderson <rwa000@gmail.com>,
	Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] improve doc heading for git-bisect
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 17:27:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080608212757.GA8034@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806081600220.1783@racer>

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 04:01:48PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > I was going to suggest a "--paste" option for format-patch which would
> > produce a nicer output for cutting and pasting,
> 
> You still have to move the subject line where it belongs, so I think the 
> value of --paste is limited.  You do have to pay attention anyway (for 
> example when imitating how other people do it), so I think the current 
> state should be fine.

Not necessarily. I often end up posting patches like:

How about this?

-- >8 --
subject

body

---
diffstat

patch

but the --pretty=format recipe I provided works just fine for that.

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2008-06-08 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-07  7:06 [PATCH] improve doc heading for git-bisect Robert Anderson
2008-06-07  9:22 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-07 16:06   ` Robert Anderson
2008-06-07 16:25     ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-07 17:47     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-08  4:35     ` Jeff King
2008-06-08 15:01       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-08 21:27         ` Jeff King [this message]

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