The process which posts the "rebased and submitted" message unfortunately *can't* include the sequence number -- the sequence number is added by a plugin, but that message is sent by gerrit core, and doesn't know the plugin exists. If you wanted to get a message including the commit position, we'd have to send two messages, and I bet that we'd have many more people mad about the spam.

So instead, the message already has a link to the review (all messages from gerrit do), and we're counting on that to provide the context.

Is the gmail/inbox smartlink to the review not sufficient?

I don't see any link here: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/506430#message-dc0d69661c05f9189a5aa744de6b90f08622876e

I guess I'm not coming at this from the email, I could search my inbox instead of doing git show f4730d503, though that would be slower yet. I'm coming at this from the point of having a link to a review and trying to determine it's commit index from the web.

Scroll up. The commit message on that review page contains the Cr-Commit-Position footer.

Ohh, that gets changed on commit, and its behind Show More. Ok that is sufficient, thanks! I wouldn't have found that on my own.