On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 11:56:13AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 8:28 PM Linus Torvalds
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I'm sending this out because I'm stepping away from the keyboard,
because that whole "let's massage it into something legible" was
really somewhat exhausting. You don't see all the small side turns it
took only to go "that's ugly, let's try again" ;)

Ok, I actually sent the individual patches with 'git-send-email',
although I only sent them to the mailing list and to people that were
mentioned in the commit descriptions.

I hope that makes review easier.

See

   https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221108194139.57604-1-torvalds@linux-foundation.org (local)

for the series if you weren't mentioned and are interested.

Oh, and because I decided to just use the email in this thread as the
reference and cover letter, it turns out that this all confuses 'b4',
because it actually walks up the whole thread all the way to the
original 13-patch series by PeterZ that started this whole discussion.

I've seen that before with other peoples patch series, but now that it
happened to my own, I'm cc'ing Konstantine here too to see if there's
some magic for b4 to say "look, I pointed you to a msg-id that is
clearly a new series, don't walk all the way up and then take patches
from a completely different one.

Yes, --no-parent.

It's slightly more complicated in your case because the patches aren't
threaded to the first patch/cover letter, but you can choose an arbitrary
msgid upthread and tell b4 to ignore anything that came before it. E.g.:

b4 am -o/tmp --no-parent 20221108194139.57604-1-torvalds@linux-foundation.org

-K