[MERGE] Explain --message and --mail-to in the help of merge-directive

Aaron Bentley aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Thu Jun 28 21:55:10 BST 2007


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James Westby wrote:
> On (28/06/07 16:18), Aaron Bentley wrote:

>> This seems to basically repeat the option help.  And since no one should
>> be using these options, I hesitate to give them prominence.
> 
> If no-one should be using them then that is fine. However I am not sure
> why you say that. I use these options for the bundles I just sent in.

Yes, and as I noted, you are making extra work for me by doing that.  I
would appreciate it if you would stop it.

> Could you explain the intended use of this command please?

$ bzr merge-directive > ~/patches/my-patch-name

Now create a message in your mail client and attach the merge-directive
to it.

Some patches are so trivial that they don't need any explanation, but
most of them deserve an explanation beyond what goes in the subject line.

Aaron
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