From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 20:46:16 GMT
Subject: Re: storing cover letter of a patch series?
Message-ID: <3E80981D72F74A11A41A228901644E1C@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xqbmZznxq024fhkejp2FeCVYkOYHTSdR69Di3nkzYJooA@mail.gmail.com>

From: "Jacob Keller" <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
[nip]
>>
>> I've no problem with more extensive methods for those preparing very big
>> patch series, or with those needing to merge together a lot of series and
>> want to keep the cover letters, but ensuring that a simple flow is 
>> possible
>> should still be there.
>> --
>> Philip
>>
>
> Some people have suggested this simple idea, and I like it, but they
> did mention that modifying the cover letter now requires a rebase over
> a potentially large series of patches, which can get annoying.
>
> Thanks,
> Jake

They can just add "squash! cover! <series>" commits for that ;-) Though more 
likely the advanced workflow would be used... We'll need both (more than 
one) options.
--
Philip