On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 10:05:16PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > Fine, maybe b4 could help here by verifying if patch-id works on commits in
> > the maintainer's branch before sending a pr, and for those where it doesn't,
> > the maintainer can decide to add them. It sounds more useful to me than
> > adding anything "AI-powered" to it.
>
> I think ideally if there's tooling for this it should have both a
> verification feature like you mention and also be supported by b4 mbox
> so that you can say "b4 mbox ${COMMIT}" or whatever and have it download
> a mailbox like can currently be done with a message ID. That'd keep the
> usability we currently have, the tool could look in the message for a
> link and use that if it needs it.
Yeah, this is actually a neat idea -- I'll put that on the menu. We'll try
both --myers and --histogram when looking it up and then try a few other
tricks if we don't find anything (query by subject+author, etc).
I'll let you know when it's ready to test out.
-K
