Re: [PATCH 00/11] sequencer: do not record dropped commits as rewritten

> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 12:57:32PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> A tangent (I Cc'ed Konstantin for this), but
>>
>>      $ b4 am -o- '<cover.1782833268.git.phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>' >b4am.mbx
>>
>> failed to produce a usable mailbox.  It somehow did not think [2/11]
>> existed.
> 
> FTR: The mail is on lore.kernel.org.
> 
> Also to yield a usable mailbox my patch shouldn't be included.

>> I manually examined the References and In-Reply-To headers
>> of that particular message and compared them with those from other
>> messages but did not find anything suspicious X-<.
> 
> 
>>
>> I have a bunch of typofixes queued on top of these 11 patches (made
>> with "git commit --fixup reword:<sha1>"); please double check when
>> you reroll after seeing more substantial reviews than mere typofixes,
>> possibly from others.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Here is the transcript of failed b4 am invocation.
>> ---- >8 ----
>> Looking up https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1782833268.git.phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk/
>> Grabbing thread from lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1782833268.git.phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk/t.mbox.gz
>> Analyzing 17 messages in the thread
>> WARNING: duplicate messages found at index 1
>>     Subject 1: sequencer: Skip copying notes for commits that disappear during rebase
>>     Subject 2: t3400: restore coverage for note copying with apply backend
>>    2 is not a reply... assume additional patch
> 
> I think here is the origin of the problem. It guesses that the t3400
> should be added, and it takes the place of Phillip's second patch.
> 
>>    ERROR: missing [12/2]!
> 
> This is irritating, I would have expected "[2/12]" here?
> 
> 	b4 am --no-parent cover.1782833268.git.phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk
> 
> works fine for me.
> 
> Best regards
> Uwe