> > On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:36:36 -0500 > Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I've heard that some maintainers are moving away from cover letters, > > since they are not include in the git repo and are lost. > > If I get a patch series with a cover letter that should be preserved, I apply the > series in a branch then do a no-ff merge; the cover letter can then go into > the merge commit. There's no reason why cover letters need to be lost. That's clever, but still it feels like a hack. I've try to keep cover letters as an empty commits for that but it has to be always forced when rebasing. Not sure git has a real user friendly support for that. Tomas
