On Wed, 2018-03-07 at 08:54 -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:36:36 -0500 > Mimi Zohar <zo...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 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 is an awesome idea. I'll start using this approach. Thank you. /Jarkko
