[juped]

what I mean is, take any arbitrary patch thread off the front page of https://public-inbox.org/git/ and look at how people review them. they reply to the relevant commit. if you reply to the cover letter it's not a code review at all, but a more general comment on the whole branch (e.g., "do we want this feature" or something).

you definitely don't send your branch as a single patch (unless it is small and really is best expressed as a single patch). if you did you would be asked to break it up.