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Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] config/format.txt: make clear the default value of format.coverLetter

From: Eric Sunshine <hidden>
Date: 2019-08-20 02:47:15

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.
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