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
next prev parent 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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