On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 04:45:56PM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote: > Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> writes: > ... > > I think it'd be even better to include measurements in one of the commit > > messages, because those are available in the repository after the > > patches are applied. It's harder to find cover letters because they're > > only on the mailing list. > > One thing that other projects do to keep the cover letters is to create > a branch, apply all the patches from the series, and then create a merge > commit, with the commit message as the cover letter. It can make the > history a bit messier, but means that the cover letter is retained, and > makes 'git bisect' work quite a bit better (because bisect knows how to > skip merged trees appropriately). It could be worth doing, because it > can help to explain an overall motivation for a series when walking the > tree with git annotations.
I wouldn't object to that, for well-organized series. Is there a way to automate applying a branch like this from email? Or is it better to do them as pull requests (whether via email or Github)? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
