Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] doc: advise batching patch rerolls

From: Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org>
Date: Jun 15, 2026, 14:49 UTC
Message-ID: <ajAQ9BhPsFXjC13D@wyuan.org>
In-Reply-To: <ai_7X_QY0u1CWJ7s@pks.im>

On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 03:17:19PM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

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> By the way, talking about mailing list etiquette: in scenarios like this
> it makes sense to add a Helped-by trailer. That would've serviced as
> hint to Junio that I was already involved, and it gives credit to that
> other contributor. I myself don't care much about the latter part
> anymore, but newer contributors might.

Got it. I'll add that trailer. My original intention was to directly write a "Originally-from" instead of "Helped-by", because I didn't add anything new at all ;-)

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> And no, I don't mind at all that you "stole" my wording. Quite on the
> contrary, I'm happy you picked up my thoughts and cared enough to put
> them into a nice patch series :)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Patrick

I should be thanking you :-) I´d like to start by contributing through these more basic tasks and gradually become involved in the community, since my code patches would probably only create noise and meaningless trouble on the mailing list at this point ;-)

Thanks!