From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: storing cover letter of a patch series? Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 23:21:19 +0200 Organization: gmx Message-ID: <5f1102c0fcdb3530148ae7a6a18bd0a7@dscho.org> References: <74514591d4cd502eee06cde3e099e656@dscho.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git List To: Jacob Keller X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 10 23:21:47 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Za9Hv-0005bj-0l for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 23:21:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751157AbbIJVVY (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:21:24 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.18]:54229 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750943AbbIJVVX (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:21:23 -0400 Received: from dscho.org ([87.106.4.80]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx001) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MAQXq-1ZU4kc1qUU-00BdF6; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 23:21:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Sender: johannes.schindelin@gmx.de User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.1.2 X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:juJmAcaL2O/mY1vWvRWoZvZsXnQ+N/sdUUk06+mibEUEs6KZBKS WdkjF2TmTYUf02dEeCD5p70m6tumr9exUeXKHnl5sr+vRvYS2DPAiTK2qYcpMl6Lo6dZ8lx gtCPC1mE7QNveKF6LQgbmUda9wDsQQj11afGXBpRMEMItM/IdeWt376UO4Qss5CXSJQM7Ud DXGJOKokxTJjhP9VH5Xyw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:6wheXa3ig7U=:Gq002V1CSTe2ypcJgRk+bD Lb36BKaU8eLgK7SA3um7ZelEdFNS36YGp1r93dg9o0ECmbk3C/KxQM+Drs4yIczsYFGlUSKOn fPS5XpvJDKc03sp5oBHjP70MtmCKnW7IbEPwyKMG87tlI3V17SU0XLVMo003/ioMPcHaoYDKr OuiJ3DEzuy438mwD3GViM4G0TSC8WuixGDpYZLlmyWgsGC+vYqKFk5EuILzBgLi/alY7oC3dy VHCHsCa4VBmcldSY5SUQk/akCSSSHptvuam/dujNTTKVghSsad70Ag4f1OgZGnFuiNw3fUWku wYmg1NJJpdybXec1fRRtfj+Y6F2cfUB4ST5YBcYp5acIYFCNzf2qgXJ/ezt6Z7ODomx1YG6Tw HaD2EkPyeD+vGvoQLBedESEcPGUfVIPGp6YaqZjfpm1Nk8C/sV2AEs5Rtq6IhSXuvcBfDei+3 AqbOs8nat+EobDQSLP363cZ9QLQnA+77JlcMdrIknMnUO0H7VTI8LaHPkooWJ75mYh1QXha2L TgVWZ9NW2f41p7o+DDKjPpg5k53W6NFS9bvrRHgrQEPhglCnNU7s7qnKE0gwfgGQgxFBRrSjA zqvbImeqtvV15hXpHMtQgSV72NKYyx0QgOWEnkYYk+YvSTnI2hbUfmImk619Y7yJpUCMnR+q4 Gtfl+UutHXjerjGHdg49icVyxhRkR6j76S4pFU3lYXgX30Cqri0JX9HdYmDyD0MOC67p9mPxa Zt7QJ5JqcDEehW1ejtTMHPfkltAAcBScamnN4Q== Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi Jake, On 2015-09-10 23:00, Jacob Keller wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Johannes Schindelin > wrote: >> >> 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. > > Does this (or can it?) get used by send-email or format-patch's > --cover-letter? This sounds like exactly what I want. Yes, format-patch picks it up if you say `--cover-letter`. Ciao, Johannes P.S.: Please do cut down the quoted text to the part you are actually responding to. Bottom-posting is not much better than top-posting...