Re: [kernel.org users] [tools] b4 ty : wrong patch number when cherrypicking

["Rob Herring" <robh@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 11:23 AM Konstantin Ryabitsev
<konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 02:05:30PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev via linux.kernel.org wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 06:37:44PM +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > > I cherrypicked patch 4 and 5 of
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-amlogic/20201005203451.9985-1-post@lespocky.de/
> > > using:
> > >
> > > b4 am -p linux-arm-kernel -c -t -s -l -P 4-5 -o - 20201005203451.9985-5-post@lespocky.de
> > >
> > > After applying to my tree, b4 ty generated the message I sent (without
> > > checking, my bad):
> > >
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-amlogic/160391135997.385141.5554228268638639718.b4-ty@bootlin.com/
> > >
> > > Where it had 1/2 and 2/2 instead of 04/12 and 05/12.
> > >
> > > Is this too awful to fix? :)
> >
> > It shouldn't be -- I have a similar request in the following thread:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201003193137.z2bpwzlz5a66kkex@chatter.i7.local
>
> There is a fix in the latest master that more properly handles these
> situations:
>
> - we record actual patch prefixes when we start tracking a series, so
>   when we send a thank you report, the actual counters will be shown
> - when we send a reply for a subset of the series, we will now insert a
>   "(subset)" into the subject to more clearly indicate to the submitter
>   that the series only got applied partially

Could we not modify subjects as that breaks gmail 'threading'. Yes,
gmail is broken, but there's more than a few users...

Rob