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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] use semicolons rather than commas to separate statements
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On Sat, 3 Oct 2020, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 11:40:48AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > (Adding tools and Konstantin Ryabitsev)
> >
> > 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.

julia