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

Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] writes:

Firmin Martin wrote:

quoted

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,

It does already. I use:

  git format-patch --cover-letter --cover-from-description=auto

that takes both subject and text for cover letter from branch
description.

and even better if git branch learned --edit-cover-letter.

It reads:

  git branch --edit-description

Works for me.

-- Sergey Organov