I have a li'l git send-email question. Someone sent me a patch set
of six patches today but they were not on most current main. I had
to guess what version they were sending to so I could git am when
I was on that particular version. I managed to sort it all out so
this question is more for future reference.
Isn't there a way inside of the emails that it can show what
version to apply the patches to?
Because now I was like "OK, I remember talking to them the other
day and that means they probably are on what for me is HEAD^^" and
that turned out to be correct, and sorting out the conflicts was
also easy enough,
but if I hadn't talked to them beforehand I would've been
completely lost.
I asked another friend about it and he said:
it's possible to record the base commit:
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#_base_tree_information
however, it's a bit finicky to do with git-send-email
I dunno.
I get that one of the fun parts about using patches instead of PRs
is
that you can be a li'l more loosey goosey about exactly what
commit
something is supposed to belong to but here I would've been
completely
lost because the patchset just borked horribly right from the
first patch.
If others have run into this, what's the solution?
