Re: [PATCH] Add 'git format-patch --to=' option and 'format.to' configuration variable.

Steven Drake [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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I tried to ask you (apparently in a garbled grammar, sorry) what
your workflow of sending the format-patch output to the outside world is.

 
$ ./git-format-patch --stdout master~5..master~1 >>~/mail/postponed-msgs
$ alpine -I cp

Only problem with doing that is that alpine changes the Date: and
 Message-Id: header (the later being a pain if I used --threaded).

Finally.  That is the kind of "how somebody would work with format-patch
output" I was looking for.  Thanks.

... I would understand if you wanted to deprecate '--cc' from
format-patch and 'format.cc' (maybe keep it for backwards compat).

No, you took me wrong.  Deprecation wasn't what I was after.

I wanted to see ways to _positively_ explain what format.{cc,to} are good
for.  With them, we can eventually have a few examples in EXAMPLES section
of the manual page to help users (hint, hint...).