From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>
Cc: fuyao <fuyao@allwinnertech.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, 黄臻炜 <huangzhenwei@allwinnertech.com>
Subject: Re: Is cover letter can save changes?
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 12:21:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmu0gbt51.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873629fb6c.fsf@yadavpratyush.com> (Pratyush Yadav's message of "Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:53:39 +0530")
Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com> writes:
> 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.
> ...
> 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.
Another thing people are encouraged to do is to use the -o option to
store iterations of your series on disk, perhaps in the same
directory. When you edit v2-0000-cover-letter.txt file, you can
then reference the previous one you've already sent easily that way.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-20 19:21 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
2020-10-20 19:21 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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