How to add additional text when sending an email with git send-email?

Question

I am sending patches using git send-email <patch-name>.

I want that the email sent with the patch to have some additional text added at the top, besides the commit message.

Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

You can use --annotate, then just add your comment between the two --- of the patch, it won't affect the very patch.

Ref: https://kparal.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/git-tip-of-the-day-introduction-text-when-emailing-patches/

eg:

From 7ea3c50fa83950549de11c6834c465bc8f28b52b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Laska
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:53:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] compose_tree - Save the setup.sh script for later debugging

---
This patch is really really important, because otherwise the 
world will end in 2012. Please accept it.

 tests/compose_tree/compose_tree.sh |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/compose_tree/compose_tree.sh b/tests/compose_tree/compose_tree.sh
index 66ecefd..c2e041d 100755
--- a/tests/compose_tree/compose_tree.sh
+++ b/tests/compose_tree/compose_tree.sh
... (the rest of the patch)