On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 09:18:51PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:

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There seems to be some mismatch between b4's use of the
cover letter to a patch series and what maintainers that
apply a subset of the patches in the patch series.

The merge description shows the entire patch series as
applied, but the actual merge is only a subset of the
series.

Can this be improved in b4?

So, the following logic should be applied:

- if the entire series was applied, reply to 0/n
- if a subset only is applied, reply to each n/n of the patch that was
  cherry-picked out of the series

Is that an accurate summary?

That sounds good.

I'm worried that this can get unwieldy for series of 50 patches where 49 
got applied. Would the following be better:

-----
From: ...
To: ...
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] use semicolons...

On Sun...

These patches...

[...]

A subset of these patches was applied to

  https://...

Thanks!

[5/18] regmap: debugfs:
       commit:

(etc)
-----

In other words, we:

- specifically say that it's a subset
- instead of just enumerating the number of patches that were applied, 
  as is currently the case ([1/1]) we list the exact numbers out of the 
  posted series (e.g. [5/18])

I think this is a better solution than potentially flooding everyone 
with 49 emails.

-K

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