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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Cc: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>,
	Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: storing cover letter of a patch series?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:38:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwpjhg42v.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xqbmZznxq024fhkejp2FeCVYkOYHTSdR69Di3nkzYJooA@mail.gmail.com> (Jacob Keller's message of "Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:09:42 -0700")

Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

That can be simply solved by keeping the cover at the end.  When you
are updating the real patch on the series with "rebase -i", you
would have a chance to update the cover at the same time that way.


  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-15 20:38 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
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 [this message]
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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