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