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From: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>
To: fuyao <fuyao@allwinnertech.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, 黄臻炜 <huangzhenwei@allwinnertech.com>
Subject: Re: Is cover letter can save changes?
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:53:39 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873629fb6c.fsf@yadavpratyush.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201020070547.GI9517@g8Exdroid64> (fuyao@allwinnertech.com's message of "Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:05:47 +0800")

On Tue, Oct 20 2020, fuyao wrote:

> Hi:
>    i have question about format-patch.
>
>    when use git format-patch with --cover-letter, we add information
>    in the cover letter. and then, i must send patch with -v2, the
>    information in the cover letter is lost in the v2 patch.
>
>    i found git notes can note things, but it add in patch not
>    cover letter. is some operate can do to save in cover letter.

You can try using `git branch --edit-description <branch_name>` and
write the contents of the cover letter there. Then you can use the
option `--cover-from-description` to use the branch description when
generating the cover letter.

>    and the git note record with commit, when amend it can lost note,
>    is the rewrite error?

Have you set the config `notes.rewriteRef` to your notes ref?

-- 
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-20 10:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-20  7:05 Is cover letter can save changes? fuyao
2020-10-20 10:23 ` Pratyush Yadav [this message]
2020-10-20 19:21   ` Junio C Hamano

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