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From: "Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
To: "Breno Leitao" <leitao@debian.org>
Cc: "Kernel.org Tools" <tools@kernel.org>,
	"Konstantin Ryabitsev" <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>,
	<kernel-team@meta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH b4] send: Add --force-cover-letter to send separate cover for single patch patch series
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:51:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DG14EHTYTJTN.2NQI0XSURUJIP@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aXteOVMUIKNzv2te@gmail.com>

On Thu Jan 29, 2026 at 2:21 PM CET, Breno Leitao wrote:
[...]
>> I do find myself needing the last use-case sometimes, when the series does
>> not require a cover-letter.
>
> Why do you need this case? I undertand a cover letter is required for
> a multi patch series, so, it can have an easy merge commit when merging
> the series.

Some project ignore merge commits altogether, so I regularly see series without
cover letters. Are merge commits that frequent? I'm not judging on whether it's
good practice or not, but introducing a --force-cover-letter option would maybe
not leave room for having such a use-case in the future.

Antonin

  reply	other threads:[~2026-01-29 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-27 12:53 [PATCH b4] send: Add --force-cover-letter to send separate cover for single patch patch series Breno Leitao
2026-01-28 18:14 ` Luca Ceresoli
2026-01-28 18:47   ` Breno Leitao
2026-01-29 11:18 ` Antonin Godard
2026-01-29 13:21   ` Breno Leitao
2026-01-29 13:51     ` Antonin Godard [this message]
2026-01-29 14:03       ` Breno Leitao
2026-01-29 14:15         ` Mark Brown
2026-01-29 15:00           ` Breno Leitao
2026-02-24 18:57 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev

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