Re: config for `format-patch --notes`?

2016-12-21 Thread Norbert Kiesel
Thanks for the reply. I did not knew that branch descriptions automatically make it in the cover letter. Learned something new! Unfortunately this would still mean I have to manually add the branch name to the branch description. I will try to create a patch for adding a config option for the

Re: config for `format-patch --notes`?

2016-12-21 Thread Johan Herland
config option that corresponds to the format-patch --notes command-line option. You can easily alias or script your way around this, e.g.: git config alias.fp 'format-patch --notes' This creates a 'git fp' command that does what you want, I believe. Alternatively, if you need more control/autom

config for `format-patch --notes`?

2016-12-20 Thread Norbert Kiesel
Hi, I use `git format-patch master..myBranch` quite a bit to send patches to other developers. I also add notes to the commits so that I e.g. remember which patches were emailed to whom. `git log` has an option to automatically include the notes in the output. However, I can't find such an