git format-patch documentation: clarify what --cover-letter does
Signed-off-by: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Aug 14, 2008 at 13:37 UTC
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Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
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@@ -147,9 +147,9 @@ include::diff-options.txt[]
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to any configured headers, and may be used multiple times.
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--cover-letter::
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- Generate a cover letter template. You still have to fill in
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- a description, but the shortlog and the diffstat will be
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- generated for you.
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+ In addition to the patches, generate a cover letter file
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+ containing the shortlog and the overall diffstat. You can
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+ fill in a description in the file before sending it out.
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--suffix=.<sfx>::
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Instead of using `.patch` as the suffix for generated