+repo-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (to hit Gerrit developers also) On Thursday, September 10, 2015 09:28:52 AM Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > does anyone know of any tricks for storing a cover letter > for a patch series inside of git somehow? I'd guess the > only obvious way currently is to store it at the top of > the series as an empty commit.. but this doesn't get > emailed as the cover letter... ... > I really think it should be possible to store something > somehow as a blob that could be looked up later. On Thursday, September 10, 2015 10:41:54 AM Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I think "should" is too strong here. Yes, you could > implement that way. It is debatable if it is better, or > a flat file kept in a directory (my-topic/ in the example > above) across rerolls is more flexible, lightweight and > with less mental burden to the users. -- As a Gerrit developer and user, I would like a way to see/review cover letters in Gerrit. We have had many internal proposals, most based on git notes, but we have also used the empty commit trick. It would be nice if there were some standard git way to do this so that Gerrit and other tools could benefit from this standard. I am not suggesting that git need to be modified to do this, but rather that at least some convention be established. -Martin -- The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html