Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] format-patch: add ability to use alt cover format

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:23:31 -0800

Mirko Faina <[email-masked]> writes:

> Example:
>     git format-patch --cover-letter \
>         --cover-letter-format="log:%s (%an)" HEAD~3
>
>     [1/3] this is a commit summary (Mirko Faina)
>     [2/3] this is another commit summary (Mirko Faina)
>     ...

Don't you need to update this example?  I personally find the
%(count)/%(total) thing a bit overengineered, but now we have it,
you'd need to write it in your forrmat string if you want to get the
[N/M] prefix, right?