From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 06:45:05 GMT
Subject: Re: storing cover letter of a patch series?
Message-ID: <CACsJy8DJmONcgQO37Xk+2cZb+Svx-bgwjrG1XrZQ4BYipownqw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xr+HonJTj5AcRhAMf5Z059zHKiuOY8Zbd77uu_jAiiZBA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Or even better, "git commit --reword $SHA1" brings up the editor with
>> commit message of $SHA1. Modify any way you want and it creates a new
>> empty, "reword!" commit that contains the diff between the old commit
>> message and the new one. "reword!" can be consumed by "rebase -i
>> --autosquash" without bringing up the editor again. I realize making
>> "git commit --reword" run multiple times would be tricky though...
>
> I was just thinking you write text and it gets appended to the text of
> the reworded commit, and when you squash them using rebase you get to
> finalize it like a normal squash?

I think that's what Phillip meant by 'squash! cover!' though I wanted
to go further, I don't want an editor popping up at rebase time,
instead 'rebase' just update cover letter automatically for me.
-- 
Duy