[Drbd-dev] [PATCH 00/18] use semicolons rather than commas to separate statements

[Joe Perches]

(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?

For example, regarding:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-amlogic/160132172369.55460.9237357219623604216.b4-ty@kernel.org/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b1174f9be2ce65f6b5ebefcba0b48e792926abbc.camel@perches.com/#t

On Thu, 2020-10-01 at 12:01 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 12:33:39PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-09-29 at 12:37 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > Feel free to submit patches to b4.
> > Have you tried the existing option to send
> > thank you's on a specific ranges of patches?
> 
> I am relying on b4 to identify which patches that I've downloaded are in
> the pushed branches.  Given that it explicitly lists the patches that
> are applied it appears to be doing an OK job here.

I'm not so sure about that.

The commit merge description in -next shows 23 files
modified but the commit range shown in the merge shows
only a single patch applied: