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From: Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: 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: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:02:02 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18979417.pyyHNUINeQ@mfick1-lnx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh9n241el.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

+repo-discuss@googlegroups.com (to hit Gerrit developers 
also)

On Thursday, September 10, 2015 09:28:52 AM Jacob Keller 
<jacob.keller@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
...
> I really think it should be possible to store something
> somehow as a blob that could be looked up later.


On Thursday, September 10, 2015 10:41:54 AM Junio C Hamano 
wrote:
> 
> I think "should" is too strong here.  Yes, you could
> implement that way.  It is debatable if it is better, or
> a flat file kept in a directory (my-topic/ in the example
> above) across rerolls is more flexible, lightweight and
> with less mental burden to the users. --

As a Gerrit developer and user, I would like a way to 
see/review cover letters in Gerrit.  We have had many 
internal proposals, most based on git notes, but we have 
also used the empty commit trick.  It would be nice if there 
were some standard git way to do this so that Gerrit and 
other tools could benefit from this standard.  I am not 
suggesting that git need to be modified to do this, but 
rather that at least some convention be established.

-Martin


-- 
The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code 
Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-10 18:02 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 [this message]
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
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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