On Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 08:04:48AM +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > For completeness, I need to mention that Konstantin's b4 tool also > detects the "latest patch series" when you ask it to pick a patch > series from a kernel mailing list. I do not know how it determines > that (and I hope that Konstantin can comment here), but it is probably > also a simple heuristics searching for similar/same subject lines of > the patch series cover letter.
There are two ways that b4 supports. One is a simple query for the same author and subject, which obviously doesn't work if the subject changes. The second one is support for the Obsoleted-by: follow-up tag, but nobody really uses it because it's not widely known. I really envisioned it to be used by automated tooling like the upcoming auto-pull-request-exploder. I am leaning towards embracing the Change-id: header, which would reference the message-id of the initial patch/series (or URL like lore.kernel.org/r/message-id). That would allow us to more effectively track the series progression. -K _______________________________________________ Patchwork mailing list Patchwork@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/patchwork