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RE: [PATCH v1 0/8] format-patch: introduce --confirm-overwrite

From: Felipe Contreras <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-07 01:46:21

Firmin Martin wrote:
Currently, git-format-patch, along with the option --cover-letter,
unconditionally overwrites a cover letter with the same name (if
present). Although this is a desired behaviour for patches which are
auto-generated from Git commits log, it might not be the case for a
cover letter whose the content is meticulously written manually.
This is one of the reasons I never use git format-patch directly, but I
use a tool on top: git send-series[1].

It would be nice if git format-patch grabbed the text of the body from
somewhere, and even better if git branch learned --edit-cover-letter.

None of this invalidates the usefulness of your patches, of course.

Cheers.

[1] https://github.com/felipec/git-send-series

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Felipe Contreras
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