From 6f9773b3ae8236420aa281befba97389e000c04a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 09:12:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] nmbug: explain the "tag the whole series" concept

---
 nmbug.mdwn | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/nmbug.mdwn b/nmbug.mdwn
index 6431ee9..b550f02 100644
--- a/nmbug.mdwn
+++ b/nmbug.mdwn
@@ -112,6 +112,12 @@ Sometimes the process stalls, and patches get tagged:
                                 or others
     notmuch::stale              The patch no longer applies to master (or in
                                 rare cases, to release)
+
+Note that these tags typically apply to whole series of patches; it
+doesn't usually make sense to apply patches later in the series before
+earlier ones. So a patch may be tagged `moreinfo` or `stale` only
+because a predecessor patch is.
+
 ### Bug tracking tag
 
 So far we are just tagging certain messages as bug reports, meaning
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2.43.0