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From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: storing cover letter of a patch series?
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:46:21 -0700
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I hadn't thought of separating the cover letter from git-send-email.
>> That would be suitable for me.
>
> Yeah, I said this number of times over time, and I said it once
> recently in another thread, but I think it was a mistake to allow
> git-send-email to drive format-patch.  It may appear that it will
> make things convenient in the perfect world where no user makes
> mistakes, but people are not perfect in real life.  Expecting them
> to be is being naive.
>

Yep. I didn't even know cover-letter was an option of format-patch
only thought it was in send-email.

Regards,
Jake