April 18, 2023 2:35 PM, "Rob Herring" <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Some trees like the networking >> tree do merge commits of patch sets where the cover letter is used as part >> of the merge commit message. Other maintainers don't, and some want the >> change log after the '---' and some do not. > > I'm not aware of anyone except for DRM wanting the changelog in the > final commits, but that's really a different issue. I don't think anyone wants changelogs in actual final commits, they usually go under "---" in patch submissions. > I'm pretty sure no one will complain about a changelog in the patches. I > guess you just have to duplicate it if you think it should be in both. > b4 could be taught to do that I suppose. IMO, the cover letter should > have a higher level changelog than the individual patches. b4 doesn't really need to manage per-patch changelogs -- they should just go under "---" in the commit. When you send the series either via "b4 send" or via git-send-email, the changelogs will be properly included in the message, but they won't make it into the tree after the maintainer runs "git am", because git will drop anything under the first "---" in the commit message. The cover letter changelog is supposed to be higher level than individual patch changelogs, so I don't think it makes sense for b4 to collect them from individual patches. -K
