[PATCH 3 of 3] patchbomb: make --git-format-patch imply --plain

[Henning Schild]

Am Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:17:32 +0900
schrieb Yuya Nishihara <yuya at tcha.org>:

> On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:47:44 +0100, Henning Schild wrote:
> > I have played with templates to get "Signed-off-by"s into commit
> > messages. That works but you have to configure it somewhere. Meaning
> > that every fresh clone will require dreadful customization, or that
> > global configuration will impose on every cloned repo.
> > To me it seems like maintaining my own templates is harder than
> > maintaining an mq in a custom mercurial. Using them you are
> > basically programming out of the tree, in a strange and limited
> > language. With a lot of references of what you expect the hg code
> > to be, but no merge conflicts on updates, no testing etc. Thinking
> > about it this way, templating is a fine mechanism for under the
> > hood, but should never have been exposed to the configs.
> > 
> > Lets assume supporting the git-format-patch format was a wanted
> > feature, and let us further assume "hg email" already used
> > templates. hg or hg-git would than come with a template for it, but
> > how would that get selected?  
> 
> Maybe "hg email -Tgit" (assuming we have a stock "git" template.)

If we can agree on that or another command line option, it would just
be a matter of changing the first patch. Actually using templates would
be another series.

Henning