From: Wolfram Sang
This should be a pretty rare case given that most people will use some generators like 'git format-patch' or 'quilt' for their patch-series. I'd say if such an error ever occurs, the series could be manually fixed/resent. That way, you don't need to code some UI and the authors who have not done a mistake won't need to take an extra step.
Looking back at my previous post I see that I haven't been very clear. The intent is to automatically process sets that the bot can recognize by itself (by looking at author + xx/yy info) and only have the manual interface as a fallback mechanism.
From: Michael Stefaniuc
That isn't very user friendly and at least for the beginning the tool needs to cope with the established and accepted workflow.
Totally agree, the tool should support the developers, not the other way around. However, humans are much better at pattern recognition than computers, so it might be advantageous to have a mechanism whereby a human can nudge the tool in the right direction.
Ge.