On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Jacob Keller <jacob.kel...@gmail.com> 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?
Being late to this thread, but I think branch.<name>.description Branch description, can be edited with git branch --edit-description. Branch description is automatically added in the format-patch cover letter or request-pull summary. is what you want. Maybe we want to see a patch that adds the reverse functionality as well, i.e. git-am will store the the cover letter as the branch description and git-merge will propose the branch description for the merge commit. > > 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. I agree here. I personally do not use that variable (yet), as it doesn't seem to be editable easily. So here is what I do: 1) First series is generated with format-patch --cover-letter 2) any following v{2,3,4} is generated without the cover-letter but with --subject-prefix=PATCHv{2,3,4} 3) the cover letter is manually edited to be the next version and a section is added why the next version of the series is sent. > > 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? > > Regards, > Jake > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html