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

From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>
Date: Jul 1, 2026, 06:00 UTC
Message-ID: <akSqjIzdvsjK0yoM@monoceros>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqpl17rec3.fsf@gitster.g>

Hello,

On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 12:57:32PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> 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-<.

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> 
> 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