Re: [PATCH b4] send: Add --force-cover-letter to send separate cover for single patch patch series

Antonin Godard
2026-01-29T13:51:15Z

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