Re: b4 review merge mode with no cover letter

Konstantin Ryabitsev <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:41:40 +0000

Newsgroups	org.kernel.linux.tools
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On Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:40:45 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When applying a single patch b4 defaults to applying linearly, and when
> applying a series it defaults to merge.  With a merge we create a merge
> commit with the cover letter in it but when the submitter didn't send a
> cover letter this looks a bit weird.  It feels like it would be better
> to default to linear when there is no cover letter, you can adjust this
> by hand but it's not obvious from the series list that the cover letter
> is missing.

There's an attempted fix for this in the latest master.

Thanks for the report!

Regards,
-- 
Konstantin Ryabitsev <[email protected]>