Re: Acked-by missed when applying

["Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 01:49:29PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 08:45:36AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 07:22:00AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> 
> > > Because you applied the first v2 patch, not the second v2 threaded to
> > > the 1st one that Greg acked.
> 
> > Should we issue a warning in such cases? E.g:
> 
> > WARNING: Identically numbered patches found, will use the latest by date.
> >          Download and edit the mailbox manually for any other outcome.
> 
> Please!  In general the messages b4 prints when it resolves any
> ambiguity are really helpful.

+1.  If b4 could give us the message id's and message time stamps,
that would be great.  Even better, perhaps b4 could download both, and
diff the two patches, which might give us some clue if it was just the
same patch accidentally sent twice, or change in the commit
description (maybe the sender forgot to add some trailers?), or the
commit diffs are actually different, in which case maybe the sender
forgot to increment the version number.

						- Ted