possible fuzziness for b4 trailers -u?
"Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:50:52 +0200
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.linux.tools |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi, I sometimes run b4 trailers -u to collect tags on patches that have been meanwhile slightly modified in git since the posting. Sometimes it's on the b4/$cover_topic branch as a submitter, sometimes it's already applied (but not stable as in no history rewrite) on a maintainer tree branch (I do use --since-commit and doublecheck the result of the update closely since some past surprises...). AFAICS the trailers update relies only patch-id (?) so it will miss the tags when patch-id changes due to these local modifications. Could it try some fuzzy matching in that case? Some ideas: - in b4/$cover_topic branch the metadata allows finding the posting thread and matching the patch subject - ok, subject can sometimes change too, but not so often as the code - in maintainer tree branch, there's usually a patch.msgid.link Link: that can lead to the given patch rather deterministically. Thanks for consideration! Vlastimil