On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey, > > 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... > > Is there some other way? Would others be interested in such a feature? > > I get very annoyed when I've written a nice long patch cover letter in > vim before an email and then realize I should fix something else up, > or accidentally cancel it because I didn't use the write "To:" address > or something.. > > I really think it should be possible to store something somehow as a > blob that could be looked up later. Even if this was a slightly more > manual process that would be helpful to store the message inside git > itself. > > In addition, this would help re-rolls since it would mean if I go back > to a topic and re-roll it I can just update the message. If it were > properly stored in my local history that would also mean I could see > revisions on it. > > Any thoughts on how to do this? > A bit of a plug for patman[1] which the u-boot project uses (although there's nothing u-boot specific about it). It lets you put the cover letter and other meta information in the commit messages as you go then will extract that information and generate a cover letter and clean patches. As of fairly recently it's also installable as a standalone application. -- [1] - http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=tools/patman/README -- 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