Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: Require base tree information

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 05:49:04PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > Specifically, I am working on a service that eager-builds git bundles for all
> > submitted patch series -- the goal is to make it simple for CI systems to
> > fetch patch submissions as bundles that are already applicable against
> > mainline. Knowing which tree and commit the series is based on is really
> > helpful when figuring this out.
> 
> This has limitations you will not be able to solve.

Oh, I am painfully aware of this -- but hopefully we'll hit most of the
standard cases. The upside of us doing it is that we have All The Objects (as
long as they have been pushed to our repos or the repos we mirror), so we
should be able to figure out the ancestry, hopefully. The base-tree info is
mostly useful for us to figure out the contributor's intent.

The service is still early in design stages and won't really be available for
a while yet -- but hopefully once it is, the other CI systems will be able to
benefit from us pre-solving the applicability so everyone doesn't have to do
it over and over on their own.

-K