On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 01:09:43PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > One request. You seem to have started using --full-index when > generating the patches. It is extremely annoying when a patch needs > to be mucked with an editor to inspect why it does not apply and to > tweak it to make it apply. 40-hex does not help at all if the base > commit is not conveyed correctly, as the recipient will not have the > necessary blob objects _anyway_. And 40-hex is unnecessarily long > in order to protect the recipient who uses "--3way" from using a > wrong blob in a fake ancestor tree. Please stop. I have in fact started using b4, as it makes most of the tedious housekeeping around patch series go away, and it indeed uses `--full-index` to generate patches. There isn't any way to change that, but I'll send a patch upstream that gives us an option to do so. My last patches haven't gotten any feedback though, so let's see how it goes. Patrick
