On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 10:50:36AM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 06:45:31AM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > > 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. > > This was done as part of this change: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/commit/?id=23a9ddba10a057bfa9c438c0b50ac36d278ae022 > > I'm not sure why --full-index was added there -- I don't think it's needed for > --binary? Please feel free to send a fix for that. No, it shouldn't be needed. `--binary` implies `--full-index` for that particular binary diff anyway. I'll send a patch. > > My last patches haven't gotten any feedback though, so let's see how it > > goes. > > I had to focus on infrastructure needs over the past few months, but I'm > starting on my b4 backlog soon. Fair enough, thanks! Patrick
