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Patchwork sees cover letter as patch if it contains an --interdiff

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue with the shown git format-patch command and the linked cover-letter example, then trace Patchwork's patch parsing entry point. Done means diffs in a cover letter are not recorded as a patch while ordinary patches continue to be recognized.

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Description

bug parser

To reproduce:

  1. git format-patch --cover-letter --interdiff=some-feature/v1 -v2 -o foo-v2 somerangehere
  2. feed into patchwork
  3. get something like this, which shouldn't be picked up by patchwork https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-rockchip/patch/20220511155309.2637-1-frattaroli.nicolas@gmail.com/

Suggested remedy is to either ignore diffs in cover letters or ignore diffs containing the word Interdiff in the previous line.

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