From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
To: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
Cc: tools@kernel.org, "Alexis Lothoré" <alexis.lothore@bootlin.com>
Subject: Re: b4: feature request: send cover as separate e-mail even for a single patch
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:52:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aXpZ_qOTNHvW5iMC@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250619113855.6a271fa6@booty>
Hello Luca,
On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 11:38:55AM +0200, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> Hello,
>
> first and foremost: b4 is awesome, thank you!
Agreed! B4 is awesome.
> A fixed behaviour of b4 is that when a series to be sent has only one
> patch the cover letter is sent in the [PATCH 1/1] mail itself, under
> the '---' separator, instead of a separate [PATCH 0/1] mail.
>
> While I'm happy with this policy for simple self-standing patches that
> do not need a cover, I find it annoying for other cases, such as:
Agree. I also have a similar requirement, to be able to send some very
specific and rare emails where I think a separate cover letter makes
more sense, other than the mixed-in case.
I've hacked a patch that I am using locally, simply passing
`--force-cover-letter` to `b4 send`, which will avoid the mixed-in
cover letter.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260127-force-cover-letter-v1-1-1ba8d7f9a64f@debian.org/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-28 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-06-19 9:38 b4: feature request: send cover as separate e-mail even for a single patch Luca Ceresoli
2026-01-28 18:52 ` Breno Leitao [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=aXpZ_qOTNHvW5iMC@gmail.com \
--to=leitao@debian.org \
--cc=alexis.lothore@bootlin.com \
--cc=luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com \
--cc=tools@kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.