[ovs-dev] Cover letters (was Re: [PATCH 0/7] Add OVS DPDK keep-alive functionality)

[Aaron Conole]

Hi Ben,

Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> writes:
...
> I think it'd be even better to include measurements in one of the commit
> messages, because those are available in the repository after the
> patches are applied.  It's harder to find cover letters because they're
> only on the mailing list.

One thing that other projects do to keep the cover letters is to create
a branch, apply all the patches from the series, and then create a merge
commit, with the commit message as the cover letter.  It can make the
history a bit messier, but means that the cover letter is retained, and
makes 'git bisect' work quite a bit better (because bisect knows how to
skip merged trees appropriately).  It could be worth doing, because it
can help to explain an overall motivation for a series when walking the
tree with git annotations.

-Aaron