Re: b4 bugs / future improvements

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 04:18:04PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 05:36:20PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:

> >  - Generally speaking, rebasing a b4 series is a bit troublesome:
> > 
> >    - It's a bit tedious to do. One needs to rebase and then edit the
> >      cover letter by hand without b4 being involved. I don't think doing
> >      the rebase interface all over again is reasonable, but maybe we
> >      could add a subcommand to set a new base?

> Interesting. I'm not sure I fully understand the problem, but then all my
> rebase tests were all very simple cases of running "git rebase <newtag>"

> Is there a reason why you have to manually edit the cover letter after a
> rebase?

If you're doing an inter-version changelog it's common to say something
like "rebased against foo" in there.  It's a bit clearer about things
than base-commit.

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