Re: [PATCH 00/18] use semicolons rather than commas to separate statements

Konstantin Ryabitsev
2020-10-03T19:31:44Z

On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 09:18:51PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > There seems to be some mismatch between b4's use of the
> > > cover letter to a patch series and what maintainers that
> > > apply a subset of the patches in the patch series.
> > >
> > > The merge description shows the entire patch series as
> > > applied, but the actual merge is only a subset of the
> > > series.
> > >
> > > Can this be improved in b4?
> >
> > So, the following logic should be applied:
> >
> > - if the entire series was applied, reply to 0/n
> > - if a subset only is applied, reply to each n/n of the patch that was
> > cherry-picked out of the series
> >
> > Is that an accurate summary?
>
> That sounds good.

I'm worried that this can get unwieldy for series of 50 patches where 49
got applied. Would the following be better:

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From: ...
To: ...
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] use semicolons...

On Sun...
> These patches...
>
> [...]

A subset of these patches was applied to

https://...

Thanks!

[5/18] regmap: debugfs:
commit:

(etc)
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In other words, we:

- specifically say that it's a subset
- instead of just enumerating the number of patches that were applied,
as is currently the case ([1/1]) we list the exact numbers out of the
posted series (e.g. [5/18])

I think this is a better solution than potentially flooding everyone
with 49 emails.

-K