Re: storing cover letter of a patch series?

From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 10, 2015, 21:00 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xrH6v7AVaH_su2X3xx7qs_uws-r-DozzYELm_O8g+oN9A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <74514591d4cd502eee06cde3e099e656@dscho.org>

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi Jake,
>
> 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.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho

Does this (or can it?) get used by send-email or format-patch's --cover-letter? This sounds like exactly what I want.

Regards, Jake

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