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SubjectRE: [PATCH 1/3 RESEND] tpm: add longer timeouts for creation commands.
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> On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:36:36 -0500
> Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
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> > 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's clever, but still it feels like a hack.
I've try to keep cover letters as an empty commits for that but it has to be always forced when rebasing.
Not sure git has a real user friendly support for that.

Tomas



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