On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 7:53 PM Denton Liu [off-list ref] wrote:
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diff --git a/Documentation/config/format.txt b/Documentation/config/format.txt
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ format.signOff::
format.coverLetter::
- A boolean that controls whether to generate a cover-letter when
+ A boolean which lets you enable the `--cover-letter` option by
+ default when
format-patch is invoked, but in addition can be set to "auto", to
generate a cover-letter only when there's more than one patch.
Rather than rewriting like this, I think it's more common in Git
documentation to mention the default as the last sentence in the
paragraph. For instance:
... when there's more than one patch. Default is true.