From: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Firmin Martin <firminmartin24@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmail.com>,
Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/8] format-patch: introduce --confirm-overwrite
Date: Fri, 7 May 2021 01:55:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJUAmUJiHmJRQBMj@generichostname> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60949be8613c1_8c2220882@natae.notmuch>
Hi Felipe,
On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 08:46:16PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> Firmin Martin wrote:
> > Currently, git-format-patch, along with the option --cover-letter,
> > unconditionally overwrites a cover letter with the same name (if
> > present). Although this is a desired behaviour for patches which are
> > auto-generated from Git commits log, it might not be the case for a
> > cover letter whose the content is meticulously written manually.
>
> This is one of the reasons I never use git format-patch directly, but I
> use a tool on top: git send-series[1].
It seems like everyone has written some sort of tooling on top of
format-patch at this point. Taking a cursory look at your tool, perhaps
a feature like `--previous-cover-letter <file>` might provide most of
the functionality that most tooling that I've seen gives.
Perhaps this option could parse a cover letter from a previous version
of a patch and use it to populate the next version number, In-Reply-To,
cover letter subject/body, To/Cc lists and maybe more. I think that
extracting the information would be pretty easy but designing the UI it
in a non-obtuse way would be pretty challenging.
> It would be nice if git format-patch grabbed the text of the body from
> somewhere, and even better if git branch learned --edit-cover-letter.
Well, you're in luck! I wanted the same thing a couple of years back so
I implemented the --cover-from-description option[0]. It allows the cover
letter to be populated by the text given in
`git branch --edit-description`.
-Denton
[0]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#Documentation/git-format-patch.txt---cover-from-descriptionltmodegt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-07 8:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-06 16:50 [PATCH v1 0/8] format-patch: introduce --confirm-overwrite Firmin Martin
2021-05-06 16:50 ` [PATCH v1 1/8] compat/terminal: let prompt accept input from pipe Firmin Martin
2021-05-06 23:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-07 4:54 ` Jeff King
2021-05-07 5:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-10 4:18 ` Firmin Martin
2021-05-10 21:32 ` Jeff King
2021-05-11 3:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-11 6:10 ` Jeff King
2021-05-11 6:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-11 6:37 ` Jeff King
2021-05-06 16:50 ` [PATCH v1 2/8] format-patch: confirmation whenever patches exist Firmin Martin
2021-05-06 23:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-10 3:30 ` Firmin Martin
2021-05-10 7:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-11 3:17 ` Firmin Martin
2021-05-06 16:50 ` [PATCH v1 3/8] format-patch: add config option confirmOverwrite Firmin Martin
2021-05-06 16:50 ` [PATCH v1 4/8] format-patch: add the option --confirm-overwrite Firmin Martin
2021-05-06 16:50 ` [PATCH v1 5/8] t4014: test patches overwrite confirmation Firmin Martin
2021-05-06 16:51 ` [PATCH v1 6/8] t4014: fix tests overwriting cover letter in silent Firmin Martin
2021-05-06 16:51 ` [PATCH v1 7/8] doc/format-patch: describe --confirm-overwrite Firmin Martin
2021-05-07 3:32 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-10 4:22 ` Firmin Martin
2021-05-06 16:51 ` [PATCH v1 8/8] config/format: describe format.confirmOverwrite Firmin Martin
2021-05-06 22:33 ` [PATCH v1 0/8] format-patch: introduce --confirm-overwrite Junio C Hamano
2021-05-11 0:18 ` Firmin Martin
2021-05-07 1:46 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-07 8:55 ` Denton Liu [this message]
2021-05-11 1:09 ` Firmin Martin
2021-05-11 5:12 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-11 5:03 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-07 14:02 ` Sergey Organov
2021-05-11 0:46 ` Firmin Martin
2021-05-10 12:02 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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