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From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
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On Wed, 2018-03-07 at 08:54 -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:36:36 -0500
> Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > I've heard that some maintainers are moving away from cover letters,
> > since they are not include in the git repo and are lost.
> 
> If I get a patch series with a cover letter that should be preserved, I
> apply the series in a branch then do a no-ff merge; the cover letter can
> then go into the merge commit.  There's no reason why cover letters need to
> be lost.

That is an awesome idea. I'll start using this approach. Thank you.

/Jarkko