{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/magit/magit/issues/2521","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/magit/magit/issues/2521/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/magit/magit/issues/2521/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/magit/magit/issues/2521/events","html_url":"https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/2521","id":128904762,"number":2521,"title":"format patches with cover letter","user":{"login":"zabbal","id":471821,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/471821?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/zabbal","html_url":"https://github.com/zabbal","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zabbal/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zabbal/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zabbal/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zabbal/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zabbal/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zabbal/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zabbal/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zabbal/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zabbal/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/magit/magit/labels/feature%20request","name":"feature request","color":"079400"}],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2016-01-26T18:38:39Z","updated_at":"2016-01-26T22:37:12Z","closed_at":"2016-01-26T22:37:12Z","body":"A rather common [1] workflow is to format patch series with cover letter describing all the patches. This can (almost) be done from magit, however there are couple of improvements possible:\r\n1) It seems like right now magit does not have an option to add cover letter to the patch series (at least I have not found one after pressing W).\r\n2) I did not find a way to specify just ref (like origin/master for example) for which to make a patch series so (ma)git would figure out number of patches automatically.\r\n\r\nWould be nice if after checking cover-letter option in W popup I'd be directed straight to editing patch 0000-* in output directory so I could write it up without leaving emacs/magit - the same way it currently works for commit messages.\r\n\r\n[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email - see example"}}