Greg K-H

yeah, git notes work for that. you have to make sure that your git config preserves them on rebase and amend though, otherwise there'll be chaos...

Hm why not simply place it after a --- in the commit message? git format-patch will preserve them and correctly format it. I tried git-notes but found it inconvenient.

They then afaics make it into the commit *if* someone pulls them directly with git (and not from a list); see below sub-thread. https://twitter.com/kernellogger/status/1361950765015846914 … Sigh. /me should have tagged @gregkh in the initial tweet of this thread, maybe there are other reasons why it's a bad idea.

Ick, don't do that, no need to keep this in the changelog in the patch itself, why would anyone do that? You have your previous patches sent to the list, and the comments made on them in your mbox somewhere, use that to write your new patch submission changelog, this isn't hard.