From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:15:22 GMT
Subject: Re: How to create the " [PATCH 0/5]" first email?
Message-ID: <20120918001522.GA10283@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vfw6gqkfg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 04:49:39PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > However, when it came to creating the series, with comments, I
> > couldn't see a way of having my comments within my local commits, but
> > preparing a patch series that would properly include the '---'
> > separator.
> 
> An unofficial trick that works is to write the
> 
>     ---
> 
>      * This is an additional comment
> 
> 
> yourself when running "git commit".  That will be propagated to the
> output from format-patch.  You will have another "---" in front of
> the diffstat, but nobody is hurt by that.

But note that using "format-patch -s" will break; it puts the sign-off
below the "---".

> But when doing a big series that deserves a cover letter [PATCH 0/n],
> you will use editor on the output from format-patch anyway, and I
> find it simpler to do the follow-on comments at that point myself.

Me too (actually, I load it all into mutt and then comment on each as I
send them out, but it amounts to the same thing, seeing as how my MUA
just invokes $EDITOR when I edit a mail).

-Peff