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Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: Refuse to send cover-letter template subject
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Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> writes:

>> Good ;-).  More valuable to detect would be an empty "blurb" section
>> (i.e. not "unedited *** BLURB HERE ***" string, but literally, there is
>> nothing said in the message other than the shortstat).
>
> My mail "[PATCH 0/6] fixes for git-send-email" had an empty blurb
> section because it didn't need any additional description.
> I wouldn't want git to refuse sending it.

I actually wouldn't have wanted to see that [0/6] with empty description.

If the list of 6 patch titles give clear enough description of the theme
of the whole series, you would not need [0/6] to set the stage, and that
is the best kind of series.  For your send-email patches, you certainly
chose very good titles for them.