Re: [PATCH 0/5] Introduce 'uploadpack.lazyFetchTrusted'

Christian Couder [off-list ref] writes:

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It turns out the reason has nothing to do with your choice of
base.  It is because the series structure is not understood by 'b4'.

The cover letter I am responding to is a reply to another series,
but the patches in this round are not marked as 'v2'.  This seems
to cause 'b4' to grab patches from both series and smash them
together, resulting in an inapplicable mess.  It seems you cannot
have your cake and eat it, too 😠.

I guess b4 should have, or grow, an option for that, because it's not
uncommon that someone would post an alternative patch or patch series
in reply to some patch(es).

There is an option that tells it not to crawl up the parent article
to find siblings, and it would have worked fine in this case, but
then it would prevent us from noticing that a newer iteration
exists.

But it should not be the norm.