From: Philip Oakley Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:20:55 GMT Subject: Re: storing cover letter of a patch series? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <5f1102c0fcdb3530148ae7a6a18bd0a7@dscho.org> From: "Johannes Schindelin" > On 2015-09-10 23:00, Jacob Keller wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Johannes Schindelin >> 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`. > I didn't know that. It doesn't appear to be mentioned in the man pages. IIUC https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/builtin/log.c#L971 suggests that it is a deliberate extra inclusion, rather than being part of the shortlog and diffstat mentioned in the manual https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt#L216 Sounds like it may be a worthwhile doc patch. -- Philip