On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 11:56:13AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 8:28 PM Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I'm sending this out because I'm stepping away from the keyboard, > > because that whole "let's massage it into something legible" was > > really somewhat exhausting. You don't see all the small side turns it > > took only to go "that's ugly, let's try again" ;) > > Ok, I actually sent the individual patches with 'git-send-email', > although I only sent them to the mailing list and to people that were > mentioned in the commit descriptions. > > I hope that makes review easier. > > See > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221108194139.57604-1-torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > for the series if you weren't mentioned and are interested. > > Oh, and because I decided to just use the email in this thread as the > reference and cover letter, it turns out that this all confuses 'b4', > because it actually walks up the whole thread all the way to the > original 13-patch series by PeterZ that started this whole discussion. > > I've seen that before with other peoples patch series, but now that it > happened to my own, I'm cc'ing Konstantine here too to see if there's > some magic for b4 to say "look, I pointed you to a msg-id that is > clearly a new series, don't walk all the way up and then take patches > from a completely different one. Yes, --no-parent. It's slightly more complicated in your case because the patches aren't threaded to the first patch/cover letter, but you can choose an arbitrary msgid upthread and tell b4 to ignore anything that came before it. E.g.: b4 am -o/tmp --no-parent 20221108194139.57604-1-torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -K