From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jacob Keller Subject: Re: storing cover letter of a patch series? Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:00:02 -0700 Message-ID: References: <74514591d4cd502eee06cde3e099e656@dscho.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Git List To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 10 23:00:30 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 1Za8xI-0000nT-Qm for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 23:00:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751007AbbIJVAY (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:00:24 -0400 Received: from mail-io0-f176.google.com ([209.85.223.176]:33899 "EHLO mail-io0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750877AbbIJVAX (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:00:23 -0400 Received: by iofb144 with SMTP id b144so76535517iof.1 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:00:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=3k/G0jvnvyj/WwasT1VCCCabTcqiVYAPMvD8i5DKvj0=; b=c0iSnnLrhq57QyqI1CtYO5NAommH7z3f2GfqJ9dDJwv8V8ec24dGCtDbvrJ0e8YhJ6 eg6OgFbsW3UY/eWWT8JcyWkXQEfaPiJMu12GdxwSasc5jtqZbjrY1CHiDFnuBoHIgrPK BONOU5TiIhp1RhhqoYHFjowhlLs0au3NpORAumeB2gpVxLHE0IzETzDrY2OfAJberXpV COCiGJIHU8Pkf47tqLdh1AOi94R7lNK90phT5wsDZc4LD0JL61qVAgjQQWp62lsvtVtq oBxId40s1J92nkK5w4uQds9rZxM3Z+SJm5UwVxoU0Pb2+BcwMtodBN1qAl6Rbezvinn3 ADcw== X-Received: by 10.107.14.202 with SMTP id 193mr64723267ioo.146.1441918821929; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:00:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.107.132.155 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:00:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <74514591d4cd502eee06cde3e099e656@dscho.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > 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 Does this (or can it?) get used by send-email or format-patch's --cover-letter? This sounds like exactly what I want. Regards, Jake