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From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: storing cover letter of a patch series?
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:58:49 +0200
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Hi Jake,

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.

Ciao,
Dscho