Re: [PATCH b4] send: add --in-reply-to option for threading cover letters

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2026 at 12:26:57PM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2026 at 05:17:57PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > > I don't see a way to reconcile what you're trying to do and keeping automation
> > > working reliably, do you?
> > 
> > Yeah, I wasn't aware that this is a limitation. If this isn't super
> > uncommon, than it is broken with similar mail chains. Good to know that
> > this breaks b4.
> > 
> > Maybe what Vlastimil proposed would serve at least a similar purpose
> > where it adds the people on the bug report to the Cc and automatically
> > inserts a Link: to the report in the message or the commit.
> 
> Right, so if I understand it correctly, we want to be able to post a "here's a
> related patch" but without it being confused as a patch within the same
> series. I think one way to accomplish this would be to post the patch under

Yes, absolutely.

> the scissors, like so:
> 
>     Hey, how about this patch...
> 
>     -- >8 --
> 
>     From: ...
>     Subject: [PATCH ...] Unrelated Foo Patch
> 
>     This is foo patch for bar.
> 
>     git --diff ...
> 
> I *think* this would do the right thing, but I need to test it first. From
> your perspective, would this do what you're looking for?

Yes, I think this would work great.