Dear Reinhard Meyer,
In message 4C8D212F.2010503@emk-elektronik.de you wrote:
I know, and I expected them to be numbered by send-email, but I have to have them numbered by format-patch. But there is now the catch that I got 8 commits and it numbers consequently 1/8, 2/8. What simple trick allows me to format-patch only HEAD~8 and HEAD~7 ?
git format-patch -n HEAD~9..HEAD~7 ?
Thanks. Way too simple to see the dots through a big redwood board. (though I'd use HEAD~8..HEAD~7)
This would give you only a single patch, representing the commit at HEAD~7
Is there a similar simple trick to produce the 0/n e-Mail? I mean without hand entering Subject and Body into the send-email phase? Like having it in a prepared file?
Maybe the "--compose" to "git send-email" is what you are looking for:
--compose Invoke a text editor (see GIT_EDITOR in git-var(1)) to edit an introductory message for the patch series.
When --compose is used, git send-email will use the From, Subject, and In-Reply-To headers specified in the message. If the body of the message (what you type after the headers and a blank line) only contains blank (or GIT: prefixed) lines the summary won't be sent, but From, Subject, and In-Reply-To headers will be used unless they are removed.
Missing From or In-Reply-To headers will be prompted for.
See the CONFIGURATION section for sendemail.multiedit.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk