Re: Gerrit, GitButler, and Jujutsu projects collaborating on change-id commit footer

[Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 09:34:18PM +0200, Remo Senekowitsch wrote:
> Mailing lists don't suffer from this as much, because mail clients don't go
> out of their way to hide old patchset versions from users. However, they also
> don't provide any tools to help code reviewers associate old and new versions
> of patchsets. A change-id header could be essential in developing tooling
> for mailing lists that track patchsets and even individual patches within
> them across versions. Easily being able to view the interdiff between the
> last-reviewed version of a patchset and its most recent version is tremendously
> useful for any code review workflow.

Yes, this already exists, using change-id footers.
E.g. you can run this inside your git checkout:

	$ b4 diff 20250331-b4-pks-collect-build-fixes-v2-0-6b06136808f3@pks.im
	Grabbing thread from lore.kernel.org/all/20250331-b4-pks-collect-build-fixes-v2-0-6b06136808f3@pks.im/t.mbox.gz
	Checking for older revisions
	Grabbing search results from lore.kernel.org
	---
	Analyzing 19 messages in the thread
	Preparing fake-am for v1: meson: fix handling of '-Dcurl=auto'
	  range: 98f2b1fb3587..163b98dec916
	Preparing fake-am for v2: meson: fix handling of '-Dcurl=auto'
	  range: 1406ab7e183b..df3c15fbd1ce
	---
	Diffing v1 and v2
		Running: git range-diff 98f2b1fb3587..163b98dec916 1406ab7e183b..df3c15fbd1ce
	---
	1:  6587b42aec = 1:  f41c06addd meson: fix handling of '-Dcurl=auto'
	2:  d8d124b84d = 2:  8c2301bcd5 gitweb: fix generation of "gitweb.js"
	3:  1f27a035f9 < -:  ---------- meson: require Perl when building docs
	4:  163b98dec9 = 3:  e1962003a5 meson: respect 'tests' build option in contrib
	-:  ---------- > 4:  6f07c417a8 meson: distinguish build and target host binaries
	-:  ---------- > 5:  df3c15fbd1 ci: use Visual Studio for win+meson job on GitHub Workflows

-K