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/
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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]
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