On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 08:59:14PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > >    https://lore.kernel.org/alsa-devel/87wo7kolfa.wl-kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com/
> 
> > This is because the cover letter is the only bit where we see "v3":
> 
> > > [PATCH v3 0/6]
> 
> > all other messages have
> 
> > > [PATCH N/6]
> 
> > I'm not sure if there is a reliably clean way of handling this 
> > situation, but I'll think about it. For this particular case, you can 
> > just pass -v1 to "b4 am" to grab the actual patches.
> 
> ...but not the tags added to the cover letter which is the main reason
> I'm doing this :/ .  I do see the issue given people sending new
> serieses in reply to existing ones though.  Perhaps some heuristic about
> lack of ambiguity (eg, if we're looking for six patches and find exactly
> six patches)?

This case is probably easier, because it properly threads those patches 
below the cover letter. I'll work in some logic to handle cases like 
that:

- patches have no explicit version info
- the 00/NN immediately upthread specifies version

in this case we can fairly safely apply the cover letter version info to 
all patches.

-K