From: "Johannes Schindelin" <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de>
On 2015-09-10 23:00, Jacob Keller wrote:
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> wrote:
On 2015-09-10 18:28, Jacob Keller wrote:
does anyone know of any tricks for storing a cover letter for a
patch
series inside of git somehow?
It is not stored as a blob, but I use `git
branch --edit-description` to write the cover letter for patch
series when I expect a couple of iterations.
Does this (or can it?) get used by send-email or format-patch's
--cover-letter? This sounds like exactly what I want.
Yes, format-patch picks it up if you say `--cover-letter`.
I didn't know that. It doesn't appear to be mentioned in the man pages.
IIUC https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/builtin/log.c#L971 suggests
that it is a deliberate extra inclusion, rather than being part of the
shortlog and diffstat mentioned in the manual
https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt#L216
Sounds like it may be a worthwhile doc patch.
--
Philip
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