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

Mark Brown
2026-01-29T14:15:49Z

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 721 bytes --]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 06:03:44AM -0800, Breno Leitao wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 02:51:05PM +0100, Antonin Godard wrote:

> > Some project ignore merge commits altogether, so I regularly see series without
> > cover letters. Are merge commits that frequent?

> The trees I am familiar with, they add the cover letter to the merge
> commit, which I personally think this is a good practice, but I am quite
> sure we don't do it everywhere.

I think it's more a question about if you get merge commits, within the
kernel that's very subsystem workflow dependent - a lot of subsystems
have a fairly linear history, they just apply patch serieses on top of
each other on a single branch so merges are very infrequent.

[-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 488 bytes --]