Hah - I'm now so used to b4 that I am really struggling to send just a single patch. #B4Addict

@pdp7 maybe that's why @ljs keeps avoiding it still

@vbabka @pdp7 I tried it the other day on arch and it gave me a python error :(

@ljs @vbabka @pdp7
package version or pip installed?

@ljs @vbabka @pdp7 failure is always an option. What was the error ?

@monsieuricon @pdp7 @vbabka I didn't ping because I assumed it was an arch packaging thing tbh.

God damn it I just rubber duckied myself and realised the mistake I made...

It's working now :P

Needed to b4 prep -n [branch name] before any b4 send...

LOOK AWAY SIR

@ljs @monsieuricon @pdp7 @vbabka you know the saying, it's always PEBKAC. Then it's DNS

@mathieu @monsieuricon @pdp7 @vbabka haha yeah.

The python error on b4 send without proper prep set up is a bit brutal though, it's a key error on a 'series' var.

An output like:

'you idiot, you forgot to prep!'

Would be good.

Also:

$ b4 prep

Seems to just do nothing (might be wrong though), be good to sort of warn 'yo bro, what you doing?'

Wasn't clear to me you needed to specify -n blahdyblah

I might not have excuses not to use this now

@vbabka @pdp7 @ljs I need to testify: b4 changed my life. I avoided it a lot and I was stupid.

@mairacanal @vbabka @pdp7 yeah I'm possibly ready for this. Maybe.

Might try a trivial patch with it today.

Like deleting bits of DRM or something

@ljs @mathieu @pdp7 @vbabka this is good feedback. I'll investigate how we can make it more obvious what went wrong when some steps are done out of order.

@monsieuricon @mathieu @pdp7 @vbabka thanks!

Allow my hollow-brained apeness to guide the way

@ljs @monsieuricon @pdp7 @vbabka feel free to ping me in the future, I happen to package this thing for Arch ;)

@gromit @monsieuricon @pdp7 @vbabka it turns out it was pebkac (i.e. my fault) haha, cheers though!

@monsieuricon @mathieu @pdp7 @vbabka another issue is it seems that the generated patch puts the S-o-b line below an inserted --- line which Andrew complained about - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250528155218.a8b755912d1eed25148c59b4@linux-foundation.org/

I did think that was a bit odd when I saw it, maybe I'm doing something wrong here? Or is there a config option to stop it doing that?

Thanks!