Re: git-format-patch --subject-prefix support.

Julian Phillips [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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"Robin H\. Johnson" [off-list ref] writes:

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Add a new option to git-format-patch, entitled --subject-prefix that allows
control of the subject prefix '[PATCH]'. Using this option, the text 'PATCH' is
replaced with whatever input is provided to the option. This allows easily
generating patches like '[PATCH 2.6.21-rc3]' or properly numbered series like
'[-mm3 PATCH N/M]'.

1/2 - Implementation and documentation
2/2 - Test case

I suspect this is a job for send-email, not format-patch.  List?

Surely though, send-email is simply a helper for sending patches
generated by format-patch?  Is there any reason to deny the ability to
set the prefix to those who don't use send-email but do use
format-patch? (Personally I found send-email to be cumbersome and
confusing, so I've stopped using it ...)

It's format-patch that applies the current "[PATCH]" prefix anyway ...

I was more worried about people's scripts who postprocess
format-patch output, relying on the '[PATCH]' to be there.  But
they should be using -k to suppress it anyway, so this addition
should be Ok.

Somebody needs to verify that mailinfo groks e-mails correctly
even when they have "Subject: [random garbage] title" though.