Re: [PATCH 00/18] use semicolons rather than commas to separate statements

From: Konstantin Ryabitsev
Date: Sat Oct 03 2020 - 15:15:09 EST


On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 11:40:48AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> (Adding tools and Konstantin Ryabitsev)
>
> There seems to be some mismatch between b4's use of the
> cover letter to a patch series and what maintainers that
> apply a subset of the patches in the patch series.
>
> The merge description shows the entire patch series as
> applied, but the actual merge is only a subset of the
> series.
>
> Can this be improved in b4?

So, the following logic should be applied:

- if the entire series was applied, reply to 0/n
- if a subset only is applied, reply to each n/n of the patch that was
cherry-picked out of the series

Is that an accurate summary?

-K