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Change IDs for kernel patches

Change IDs for kernel patches

Posted Aug 30, 2019 10:58 UTC (Fri) by wiktor (guest, #132450)
Parent article: Change IDs for kernel patches

> The idea that Torvalds liked the best — and which seems to have the widest support across the community — is to use the unique ID that is already associated with a patch posting, which is the message ID created by the poster's email client

For the record `git am` already has `--message-id` option that can be used to insert back-reference to the patch message's ID: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-am#Documentation/git-am.txt-...


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Change IDs for kernel patches

Posted Aug 30, 2019 12:01 UTC (Fri) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link]

And we use that, with some commit log mangling, to create the Link: in most cases.


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