From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jacob Keller Subject: storing cover letter of a patch series? Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 09:28:52 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 To: Git List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 10 18:29:40 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Za4ir-0002UZ-4h for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:29:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752130AbbIJQ3N (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:29:13 -0400 Received: from mail-io0-f181.google.com ([209.85.223.181]:34359 "EHLO mail-io0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751707AbbIJQ3M (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:29:12 -0400 Received: by iofb144 with SMTP id b144so67523981iof.1 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 09:29:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=brE+QhBLDcYZ7M0i45G85ZP0cjhglsolU9Ceky8fb+w=; b=VqOVex20RjX7ad+2PqgvGw+jWZkym6aAuo3bG42M4TBV9AvDdJbayoyViI2REKQ8N5 LgjRaMSFLCcFhyQTmIKF/ek590RyLM5hMnbkCyCI9Hui2OrYUbGU9jlb+bzE2QFW9crq LCxDRP/jdyXXuu2bKNOuyU4umdDwTP+avmzddwORkXe2ITJzSxvY2HefJWpCy5hTtGIi Jc7lk1G/cbT8i0z5hLt4dop0fDQL5qGXRFjKxzVLrZQT/LJ9AwI5Q0otGBABOBzGuu5W rtCzFS5zHBK1BVyXi6VKqzRjHQUAGOnw7GpmldVL9d5zRrJXkyecNLKEFtaAziNv9XX1 7c+A== X-Received: by 10.107.166.201 with SMTP id p192mr28911618ioe.0.1441902551656; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 09:29:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.107.132.155 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 09:28:52 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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? 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. 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