Re: How to create the " [PATCH 0/5]" first email?

> "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:
> > I then applied it (using git am) to a temp branch to see what it
> > produced, and could repeat the cycle until the patches looked right.
> 
> That's another obvious and valid way to prepare your series.  It all
> depends on how comfortable you are to directly edit patches.  Some
> people fear it.  Some don't.  Some can do it with their eyes closed ;-).
> 
> > 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.