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From: Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	repo-discuss@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: storing cover letter of a patch series?
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 15:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10752620.2J2dEZLIGc@mfick1-lnx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy44bxm0h.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Friday, August 05, 2016 08:39:58 AM you wrote:
>  * A new topic, when you merge it to the "lit" branch, you
> describe the cover as the merge commit message.
> 
>  * When you updated an existing topic, you tell a tool
> like "rebase -i -p" to recreate "lit" branch on top of
> the mainline.  This would give you an opportunity to
> update the cover.

This is a neat idea.  How would this work if there is no 
merge commit (mainline hasn't moved)?

-Martin

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-05 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-10 16:28 storing cover letter of a patch series? Jacob Keller
2015-09-10 17:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-10 18:02   ` Martin Fick
2015-09-10 18:38     ` Jacob Keller
2015-09-10 18:39     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-11 22:24       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-04 23:49       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-08-05 15:39         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-05 21:20           ` Martin Fick [this message]
2016-08-05 21:23             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-06 16:51               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-07  5:12           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-08-07  9:52             ` John Keeping
2016-08-07 10:42             ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-08 17:42               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-09  7:12                 ` Michael J Gruber
2015-09-10 18:32   ` Jacob Keller
2015-09-10 18:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-10 18:46       ` Jacob Keller
2015-09-10 20:09         ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-10 21:03           ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-04 23:43             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-10 18:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-09-10 21:00   ` Jacob Keller
2015-09-10 21:21     ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-09-10 22:20       ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-12 22:51   ` [PATCH] doc: show usage of branch description Philip Oakley
2015-09-12 23:44     ` Jacob Keller
2015-09-14 12:01       ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-14 13:24         ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-14 17:00         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-15 16:06           ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-15 19:10           ` Philip Oakley
2015-09-14 14:10     ` [PATCH v2] " Philip Oakley
2015-09-11  8:30 ` storing cover letter of a patch series? Chris Packham
2015-09-18  4:03   ` Simon Glass
2016-08-08 17:27 ` Stefan Beller
2016-08-08 20:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-13  8:49   ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-14  7:15     ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-15  6:28       ` Stefan Beller
2016-08-15  6:38         ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-15  6:49           ` Stefan Beller
2016-08-15  6:52             ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-15  9:40         ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-15 12:37           ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-15 13:30             ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-15 13:47               ` John Keeping
2016-08-15 20:09             ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-15 20:38               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-15 23:01                 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-15 20:46               ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-16  3:45                 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-16  5:26                   ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-16  6:45                     ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-16 15:52                       ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-16 21:29                       ` Philip Oakley

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