Re: storing cover letter of a patch series?
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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
- Date
- Sep 10, 2015, 21:21 UTC
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- <5f1102c0fcdb3530148ae7a6a18bd0a7@dscho.org>
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- <CA+P7+xrH6v7AVaH_su2X3xx7qs_uws-r-DozzYELm_O8g+oN9A@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Jake,
On 2015-09-10 23:00, Jacob Keller wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Johannes Schindelin > <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> wrote: >> >> On 2015-09-10 18:28, Jacob Keller wrote: >> >>> does anyone know of any tricks for storing a cover letter for a patch >>> series inside of git somehow? >> >> It is not stored as a blob, but I use `git branch --edit-description` to write the cover letter for patch series when I expect a couple of iterations. > > Does this (or can it?) get used by send-email or format-patch's > --cover-letter? This sounds like exactly what I want.
Yes, format-patch picks it up if you say `--cover-letter`.
Ciao, Johannes
P.S.: Please do cut down the quoted text to the part you are actually responding to. Bottom-posting is not much better than top-posting...