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From: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>
To: "Johannes Schindelin" <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>,
	"Jacob Keller" <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Cc: "Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: storing cover letter of a patch series?
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 23:20:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A29E37E55E524B9FACB67EC05486A178@PhilipOakley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5f1102c0fcdb3530148ae7a6a18bd0a7@dscho.org

From: "Johannes Schindelin" <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> On 2015-09-10 23:00, Jacob Keller wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Johannes Schindelin
>> <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> 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`.
>

I didn't know that. It doesn't appear to be mentioned in the man pages.

IIUC https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/builtin/log.c#L971 suggests 
that it is a deliberate extra inclusion, rather than being part of the 
shortlog and diffstat mentioned in the manual 
https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt#L216

Sounds like it may be a worthwhile doc patch.
--
Philip 

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-10 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-10 16:28 storing cover letter of a patch series? Jacob Keller
2015-09-10 17:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-10 18:02   ` Martin Fick
2015-09-10 18:38     ` Jacob Keller
2015-09-10 18:39     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-11 22:24       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-04 23:49       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-08-05 15:39         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-05 21:20           ` Martin Fick
2016-08-05 21:23             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-06 16:51               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-07  5:12           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-08-07  9:52             ` John Keeping
2016-08-07 10:42             ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-08 17:42               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-09  7:12                 ` Michael J Gruber
2015-09-10 18:32   ` Jacob Keller
2015-09-10 18:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-10 18:46       ` Jacob Keller
2015-09-10 20:09         ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-10 21:03           ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-04 23:43             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-10 18:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-09-10 21:00   ` Jacob Keller
2015-09-10 21:21     ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-09-10 22:20       ` Philip Oakley [this message]
2015-09-12 22:51   ` [PATCH] doc: show usage of branch description Philip Oakley
2015-09-12 23:44     ` Jacob Keller
2015-09-14 12:01       ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-14 13:24         ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-14 17:00         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-15 16:06           ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-15 19:10           ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-14 14:10     ` [PATCH v2] " Philip Oakley
2015-09-11  8:30 ` storing cover letter of a patch series? Chris Packham
2015-09-18  4:03   ` Simon Glass
2016-08-08 17:27 ` Stefan Beller
2016-08-08 20:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-13  8:49   ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-14  7:15     ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-15  6:28       ` Stefan Beller
2016-08-15  6:38         ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-15  6:49           ` Stefan Beller
2016-08-15  6:52             ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-15  9:40         ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-15 12:37           ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-15 13:30             ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-15 13:47               ` John Keeping
2016-08-15 20:09             ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-15 20:38               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-15 23:01                 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-15 20:46               ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-16  3:45                 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-16  5:26                   ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-16  6:45                     ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-16 15:52                       ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-16 21:29                       ` Philip Oakley

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