Re: storing cover letter of a patch series?

[Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 3:46 AM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> wrote:
>> From: "Jacob Keller" <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
>> [nip]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've no problem with more extensive methods for those preparing very big
>>>> patch series, or with those needing to merge together a lot of series and
>>>> want to keep the cover letters, but ensuring that a simple flow is
>>>> possible
>>>> should still be there.
>>>> --
>>>> Philip
>>>>
>>>
>>> Some people have suggested this simple idea, and I like it, but they
>>> did mention that modifying the cover letter now requires a rebase over
>>> a potentially large series of patches, which can get annoying.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jake
>>
>>
>> They can just add "squash! cover! <series>" commits for that ;-) Though more
>> likely the advanced workflow would be used... We'll need both (more than
>> one) options.
>
> Or even better, "git commit --reword $SHA1" brings up the editor with
> commit message of $SHA1. Modify any way you want and it creates a new
> empty, "reword!" commit that contains the diff between the old commit
> message and the new one. "reword!" can be consumed by "rebase -i
> --autosquash" without bringing up the editor again. I realize making
> "git commit --reword" run multiple times would be tricky though...
> --
> Duy

I was just thinking you write text and it gets appended to the text of
the reworded commit, and when you squash them using rebase you get to
finalize it like a normal squash?

Thanks,
Jake