Re: [PATCH 5/5] git send-email: turn --compose on when more than one patch.

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:54:54PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Pierre Habouzit [off-list ref] writes:

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Automatically turn --compose on when there is more than one patch, and
that the output is a tty.

I do not think this is a good idea.  I suspect I am not the only person
who uses "format-patch --cover-letter", edit the files to review and
prepare, and runs send-email to fire them off.

Maybe a config option to turn this behavior on? It seems specific to
different workflows (i.e., whether or not you are using "git send-email
$REVS" or using format-patch first).

Yeah, if send-email did not have --compose to begin with, we could just
say "don't use --compose; use --cover-letter when you use send-email to
front-end format-patch instead", but some people perhaps are used to run
format-patch separately without --cover-letter and then create the cover
letter from scratch with --compose (which seems a bit more work to me,
though).

So I am not opposed to a sendemail.foo configuration option.