b4 dig not finding commits due to alternate sender emails

b4 dig not finding commits due to alternate sender emails

[Mark Brown]

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Hi Konstantin,

I'm seeing a bunch of commits that b4 dig is unable to locate on lore
due to the sender using a different email address to send the patch to
that used for the commit.  For example with:

  e48e16f3e37fac76e2f0c14c58df2b0398a323b0 f2fs: support non-4KB block size without packed_ssa feature

the posting looks to git like a non-author send from daeho43@gmail.com
of a patch from daehojeong@google.com but since b4 constrains based on
the commit author email address:

  q=(s:"f2fs: support non-4KB block size without packed_ssa feature" AND f:"daehojeong@google.com" AND d:..20260118)

we don't match once we get beyond the patch ID searches.  I'd expect
this to also hit for actual non-author sends but the examples I'm seeing
pop up are all one person with multiple e-mail addresses.  Not sure what
the best approach is here...

Thanks,
Mark

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Re: b4 dig not finding commits due to alternate sender emails

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 05:53:17PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> Hi Konstantin,
> 
> I'm seeing a bunch of commits that b4 dig is unable to locate on lore
> due to the sender using a different email address to send the patch to
> that used for the commit.  For example with:
> 
>   e48e16f3e37fac76e2f0c14c58df2b0398a323b0 f2fs: support non-4KB block size without packed_ssa feature
> 
> the posting looks to git like a non-author send from daeho43@gmail.com
> of a patch from daehojeong@google.com but since b4 constrains based on
> the commit author email address:
> 
>   q=(s:"f2fs: support non-4KB block size without packed_ssa feature" AND f:"daehojeong@google.com" AND d:..20260118)
> 
> we don't match once we get beyond the patch ID searches.  I'd expect
> this to also hit for actual non-author sends but the examples I'm seeing
> pop up are all one person with multiple e-mail addresses.  Not sure what
> the best approach is here...

Using this to test the lovely new git-bug integration via bugspray.

bugspray tag b4/dig

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Re: b4 dig not finding commits due to alternate sender emails

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2026 at 11:40:41PM +0000, B4 Bugbot wrote:
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Re: b4 dig not finding commits due to alternate sender emails

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Konstantin Ryabitsev writes in commit c43341f9442fd3d315302de9d8c99eb7b6928838:

dig: search for in-body From when author email doesn't match

When a patch is sent from a different email address than the one
recorded in the commit (e.g. personal gmail vs. corporate address),
the author+email search fails to find the patch on lore. Add a
fallback that searches for the in-body "From:" line that git-am
writes when the envelope sender differs from the patch author.

Reported-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Closes: https://msgid.link/aa4a44c9-7fee-4dd3-aafe-dca46c7038d0@sirena.org.uk # 2294e57
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Assisted-by: claude-opus-4-6

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