Currently, format-patch only accepts branch.<name>.description as a
branch-specific configuration variable. However, there are many other
options which would be useful to have on a branch-by-branch basis,
namely cover letter subject and To: and Cc: headers.
Teach format-patch to recognise these branch-specific configuration
options.
Note that this patchset[1] was created using these new configuration
options:
[branch "submitted/fix-revisions-txt"]
coverSubject = "cleanup revisions.txt"
cc = "Andreas Heiduk <ashei...@gmail.com>"
cc = "Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com>"
cc = "Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>"
So this is a live example of this patchset working in practice.
[1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/cover.1557072286.git.liu.den...@gmail.com/
Denton Liu (7):
t4014: clean up style
Doc: add more detail for git-format-patch
branch.c: extract read_branch_config function
format-patch: make cover letter subject configurable
format-patch: move extra_headers logic later
string-list: create string_list_append_all
format-patch: read branch-specific To: and Cc: headers
Documentation/config/branch.txt | 10 +
Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 33 +-
branch.c | 14 +-
branch.h | 5 +
builtin/log.c | 147 ++++--
string-list.c | 9 +
string-list.h | 7 +
t/t4014-format-patch.sh | 708 +++++++++++++++++------------
t/t9902-completion.sh | 5 +-
9 files changed, 590 insertions(+), 348 deletions(-)
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