Re: master 59df0a7bd9: Add a VC command to prepare patches

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Sat 08 Oct 2022 at 05:52AM -04, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
>>
>>> +@vindex vc-prepare-patches-separately
>>> +Depending on the value of the user option
>>> +@code{vc-prepare-patches-separately}, @code{vc-prepare-patch} will
>>> +generate one or more messages.  The default value @code{t} means
>>> +prepare and display a message for each revision, one after another.  A
>>> +value of @code{nil} means to generate a single message with all
>>> +patches attached in the body.
>>> +
>>> +@vindex vc-default-patch-addressee
>>> +If you expect to contribute patches on a regular basis, you can set
>>> +the user option @code{vc-default-patch-addressee} to the address(es)
>>> +you wish to use.  This will be used as the default value when invoking
>>> +@code{vc-prepare-patch}.  Project maintainers may consider setting
>>> +this as a directory local variable (@pxref{Directory Variables}).
>>> +
>>
>> Please excuse me if I missed discussion in a bug, but wouldn't it make
>> sense to set *both* of these in .dir-locals.el for emacs.git?
>
> Yes, but I would wait a bit to avoid the same issues as we had when
> `diff-add-log-use-relative-names' was set.  Anyone who had pulled the
> new commits with the change but hadn't rebuilt Emacs to know that these
> are safe values was prompted the "are you sure these variables are safe"
> queries.  If we wait for a week or two then I would guess that most
> people following development will have pulled and rebuilt at least once
> by then.

I guess enough time has gone by and the variable could be added to
.dir-locals.el?