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

Hi Felipe,

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].

This is good to know. As a newcomer to email-based workflow, I ignored
how people use git format-patch/send-mail efficiently.

It would be nice if git format-patch grabbed the text of the body from
somewhere,

In v2, I planned to grab the letter body from the cover letter subject
to being overwritten. Maybe if such a letter doesn't exist, we can instead
inherit the content of the cover letter from prior series.

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

-- 
Felipe Contreras

Thanks for your comment,

Firmin