Re: On patch series version tags, and also cover letters (was: [PATCH v2 2/2] Added parameter to take screenshot with screendump as PNG)

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 at 09:03, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> A cover letter (git format-patch --cover-letter) lets you write an
> introduction to the whole series.  Simple series may not need an
> introduction, but complex ones do.  I always use one except when the
> "series" is a single patch.

Note that a multi-patch series always needs a cover letter,
even if its contents are quite brief. Some of the automatic
tooling gets confused by multi-patch series with no cover letter.
Conversely, single patches shouldn't have a cover letter, although
getting that one wrong doesn't really have much ill effect.

thanks
-- PMM