From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: storing cover letter of a patch series?
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:46:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xodgeu6Vo+Rt57_iFycxkEnNjxP-TTOfY8DdXwzeVKbZg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqvbbi2jy5.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I hadn't thought of separating the cover letter from git-send-email.
>> That would be suitable for me.
>
> Yeah, I said this number of times over time, and I said it once
> recently in another thread, but I think it was a mistake to allow
> git-send-email to drive format-patch. It may appear that it will
> make things convenient in the perfect world where no user makes
> mistakes, but people are not perfect in real life. Expecting them
> to be is being naive.
>
Yep. I didn't even know cover-letter was an option of format-patch
only thought it was in send-email.
Regards,
Jake
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-10 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-10 16:28 storing cover letter of a patch series? Jacob Keller
2015-09-10 17:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-10 18:02 ` Martin Fick
2015-09-10 18:38 ` Jacob Keller
2015-09-10 18:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-11 22:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-04 23:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-08-05 15:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-05 21:20 ` Martin Fick
2016-08-05 21:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-06 16:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-07 5:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-08-07 9:52 ` John Keeping
2016-08-07 10:42 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-08 17:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-09 7:12 ` Michael J Gruber
2015-09-10 18:32 ` Jacob Keller
2015-09-10 18:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-10 18:46 ` Jacob Keller [this message]
2015-09-10 20:09 ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-10 21:03 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-04 23:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-10 18:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-09-10 21:00 ` Jacob Keller
2015-09-10 21:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-09-10 22:20 ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-12 22:51 ` [PATCH] doc: show usage of branch description Philip Oakley
2015-09-12 23:44 ` Jacob Keller
2015-09-14 12:01 ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-14 13:24 ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-14 17:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-15 16:06 ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-15 19:10 ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-14 14:10 ` [PATCH v2] " Philip Oakley
2015-09-11 8:30 ` storing cover letter of a patch series? Chris Packham
2015-09-18 4:03 ` Simon Glass
2016-08-08 17:27 ` Stefan Beller
2016-08-08 20:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-13 8:49 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-14 7:15 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-15 6:28 ` Stefan Beller
2016-08-15 6:38 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-15 6:49 ` Stefan Beller
2016-08-15 6:52 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-15 9:40 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-15 12:37 ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-15 13:30 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-15 13:47 ` John Keeping
2016-08-15 20:09 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-15 20:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-15 23:01 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-15 20:46 ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-16 3:45 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-16 5:26 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-16 6:45 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-16 15:52 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-16 21:29 ` Philip Oakley
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