From: Dave Marquardt <davemarq@linux.ibm.com>
To: tools@kernel.org
Subject: b4: prep --edit-cover emits strange message about "Already Ran"
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:41:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v7eqd0lz.fsf@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
I found the message here a little confusing, and had to go code
spelunking to figure out what it might mean and how I should answer the
Y/N question.
$ b4 prep --edit-cover
Waiting for Emacs...
Invoking git-filter-repo to update the cover letter.
The previous run is older than a day (/home/davemarq/linux/linux/.git/worktrees/ibmvfc-fpin-bis/filter-repo/already_ran already exists).
See "Already Ran" section in the manual for more information.
Treat this run as a continuation of filtering in the previous run (Y/N)? n
New history written in 612.22 seconds...
Completely finished after 612.53 seconds.
Cover letter updated.
I first searched the b4 manual, and found nothing about "Already Ran".
Eventually, on reading the b4 code in ez.py, I found this was from the
git-filter-repo package and I should check its manual. I found the code.
There's no way to opt out of this check and message.
Would you be interested in updating the b4 manual with a note about
this? I eventually figured out I should answer with N. Perhaps an update
to the --edit-cover text in "Prep command flags" in the manual? I'll
provide it if you're interested.
-Dave
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-20 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-20 14:41 Dave Marquardt [this message]
2026-03-20 14:52 ` b4: prep --edit-cover emits strange message about "Already Ran" Matthieu Baerts
2026-03-20 15:26 ` Dave Marquardt
2026-03-20 15:50 ` Dave Marquardt
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87v7eqd0lz.fsf@linux.ibm.com \
--to=davemarq@linux.ibm.com \
--cc=tools@kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.