Re: b4: ty: User-flow regression

[Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2025, Greg KH wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 10:37:22AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 03:34:52PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > > Next question is -- have you recently stopped adding Link: tags to your
> > > > commits? :)
> > > 
> > > Oooo, yes!  Yes, I have!
> > > 
> > > Why would that make a difference?
> > 
> > When patches have been altered by the maintainer, we can no longer match them
> > by git-patch-id.
> 
> Which is the primary reason to keep the Link: stuff.  Many maintainers
> manually change patches to fix up minor things all the time, and without
> the Link: it's a major pain to find (the LF sponsored a whole project
> just to do the backwards mapping for many years, but no one used it...)
> 
> > In the past, when we found a Link: trailer, we could still
> > match their provenance by message-id, but if that is gone, we can no longer
> > fall back to that. I am working on making the "ty" mechanism being less
> > dependent on that -- hopefully the master branch should become more useful to
> > you again in the near future.
> 
> message-id is important to track somehow, we need that link.

It turns out that going back to manually thanking contributors is too
much of a regression for me ATM.  For now at least, against Linus'
wishes (sadly), I'm putting Link:s back in.

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]