Re: b4 submit ready for beta testing

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 02:48:35PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
>> Hello, all:
>> 
>> Based on your feedback, I've refactored the submit functionality and it's
>> ready for some more poking and testing. Here are the implemented changes:
>> 
>> 1. Pluggable cover letter strategies
>>    The goal is to support 3 different cover-letter strategies:
>> 
>>    "commit": same as first implementation with the cover letter stored in an
>>    empty commit at the beginning of the series.
>
> How about an 'end of the series' option if we are doing lots of
> choices?
>
> I've never actually seen 'start of the series' in the wild before..

FWIW, I was planning to do a new feature for 

 - "git am", where the cover letter becomes an empty commit at the
   tip of the series; and

 - "git merge", where such a branch with an empty commit that stores
   the overall topic description at the tip of it would lose the tip
   commit when the topic is merged, and instead the resulting merge
   message would inherit the message from the empty commit at the tip.

 - "git format-patch", where such an empty commit at the tip is
   recognised and is used to pre-populate the cover letter.

And having cover letter consistently at the top of the series would
make the life easier, I would imagine.

Thanks.