From: Sandra Snan Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:50:31 GMT Subject: getting git send-email patches from someone who is behind Message-ID: <87h6ksk2hk.fsf@ellen.idiomdrottning.org> 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?