[PATCH v2 3/6] parser: Add series parsing

[Andrew Donnellan]

On 05/09/16 14:19, Russell Currey wrote:
> In testing v2 I found a weird issue I didn't find before.
>
> If you send a new series in reply to the cover letter of a previous series, it
> appends the patches to the previous series.  This is rather confusing as you
> would think any patches sent in reply to a cover letter would belong to that
> series, but they clearly should be treated differently in some cases, as you can
> see in the screenshot below:
>
> https://i.imgur.com/8Yi9IjR.png

Or in reply to patch 1 of the initial series - the one in your 
screenshot doesn't have a cover letter.

> Maybe use a reset in numbering?  This would be harder to parse if both series
> had the same number of patches, I'm imagining something like the following:
>
> - [1/3] patch sent in reply to cover letter, new series (#1)
> - [2/3] patch sent in reply to cover letter, append to #1
> - [3/3] patch sent in reply to cover letter, append to #1
> - [1/3] patch sent in reply to cover letter, new series (#2)
> - [2/3] patch sent in reply to cover letter:
> 	- see that series #2 doesn't have a 2/3
> 	- see that the date of the patch means it's probably for series #2
> 	- append to series #2
> - [3/3] is the same as above.

This is the sanest approach I think. For each 1/N patch, create a new 
series.

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Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited