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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Dave, On 20/03/2026 15:41, Dave Marquardt wrote: > I found the message here a little confusing, and had to go code > spelunking to figure out what it might mean and how I should answer the > Y/N question. > > $ b4 prep --edit-cover > Waiting for Emacs... > Invoking git-filter-repo to update the cover letter. > The previous run is older than a day (/home/davemarq/linux/linux/.git/worktrees/ibmvfc-fpin-bis/filter-repo/already_ran already exists). > See "Already Ran" section in the manual for more information. > Treat this run as a continuation of filtering in the previous run (Y/N)? n > New history written in 612.22 seconds... > Completely finished after 612.53 seconds. > Cover letter updated. > > I first searched the b4 manual, and found nothing about "Already Ran". > Eventually, on reading the b4 code in ez.py, I found this was from the > git-filter-repo package and I should check its manual. I found the code. > There's no way to opt out of this check and message. Yes, there is: simply by removing the file. That's what b4 is doing for a while, and it has been backported in the last stable version (0.14.3): https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/commit/?h=stable-0.14.y&id=e5369681808b Is it not working on your side? If no, which b4 version are you using? Cheers, Matt -- Sponsored by the NGI0 Core fund.