On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Junio C Hamano <[email protected]> wrote: > Jacob Keller <[email protected]> writes: > >> Some people have suggested this simple idea, and I like it, but they >> did mention that modifying the cover letter now requires a rebase over >> a potentially large series of patches, which can get annoying. > > That can be simply solved by keeping the cover at the end. When you > are updating the real patch on the series with "rebase -i", you > would have a chance to update the cover at the same time that way. >
It has problems keeping it at the end as well because that makes regular commits and commit --amend funky.., but you could do squashes into the cover letter easily enough as suggested by Philip Oakley. I think that might be the most natural flow we have now that doesn't depend on creating some fancy new object type. Thanks, Jake -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
