From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 21:21:19 GMT
Subject: Re: storing cover letter of a patch series?
Message-ID: <5f1102c0fcdb3530148ae7a6a18bd0a7@dscho.org>
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xrH6v7AVaH_su2X3xx7qs_uws-r-DozzYELm_O8g+oN9A@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Jake,

On 2015-09-10 23:00, Jacob Keller wrote:
> 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...