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To:	Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: storing cover letter of a patch series?
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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.