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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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 16:01:48 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806081600220.1783@racer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080608043543.GB11194@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Jeff King wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 09:06:19AM -0700, Robert Anderson wrote:
> 
> > > FYI this line is not necessary, and should be removed from
> > > git-format-patch output when pasting it to your MUA.
> > 
> > Err, then shouldn't it be removed from format-patch, rather than
> > deleted manually every time format-patch is used?
> 
> As others have pointed out, the usual way for using format-patch is to
> create an mbox that you then pull into your MUA (e.g., I do "git
> format-patch --stdout origin >mbox; mutt -f mbox").
> 
> However, sometimes it is desirable to cut and paste, either because it
> is inconvenient to bring the message into your MUA this way, or if you
> are just putting a commit into an email you have already started
> writing.
> 
> 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.

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-08 15:04 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 [this message]
2008-06-08 21:27         ` Jeff King

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