Struggling with git (format-patch & send-email)

[Jim Davis]

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Prasant J <pj0585 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to send my 2 commits as patches in chain reply to my first
> email. My first email will have multiple files as attachment. How can
> I achieve it?
>
> first email subject: [mystring] Feature 01
> patch 01:                  |_ [mystring] [PATCH 01/02] My commit msg 1
> patch 02:                    |_ [mystring] [PATCH 02/02] My commit msg 2
>
>
> My git send-email is working, but I want to achieve the above desired
> outcome which I'm unable to.
>
> I have tried so many combinations of git format-patch and send-email
> over the past days but I'm unable to get the above outcome.
>
> One combination that was close to working:
> => git format-patch -2 --numbered --start-number 01 -o patch-dir --thread
> => git send-email --in-reply-to="Message-Id" --to user at gmail.com
> --chain-reply-to --suppress-cc=self patch-dir/*
>
> I'm trying to see the desired effect in my web gmail, but I do not see.

If you don't have access to something like mutt or thunderbird that
can show you threads, then you may have to mail it to yourself and try
the 'show original' option and look at the References: header to check
that you have the results you'd like to see.

Yes, that's painful.

>
>
> * What am I doing wrong? Any inputs will be of help!
> * How to add subject prefix? (subject-prefix of git format-patch is
> not working as above)
> * How to get 2 digit patch number? I'm getting PATCH 1/2 instead of PATCH 01/02

Well, one way is to use --subject-prefix="PATCH 01/02" --no-numbered
arguments to format-patch.  But then you'd have to write a shell loop
of some sort to process each patch, instead of having format-patch do
that for you.

-- 
Jim