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Fri, 19 Dec 2025 07:25:18 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" Cc: Carlo Marcelo Arenas =?utf-8?Q?Bel=C3=B3n?= , "Aaron Plattner" , git@vger.kernel.org, "Patrick Steinhardt" Subject: Re: [PATCH] odb: do not use "blank" substitute for NULL In-Reply-To: <4d084712-dc9a-4824-b840-4d78831d9da9@app.fastmail.com> (Kristoffer Haugsbakk's message of "Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:39:31 +0100") References: <0e860421-8f8c-4bf9-8ad8-82fe269a7a9d@app.fastmail.com> <4d084712-dc9a-4824-b840-4d78831d9da9@app.fastmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:25:17 +0900 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" writes: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2025, at 11:59, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 09:02:59AM -0800, Kristoffer Haugsbakk wrote: >>>[snip] >>> >>> This project typically does not use that trailer/tag. >> >> While factually correct, I think the "why" is more interesting in this case. >> anf the answer IMHO is: not, because it is not needed. >> >> % git describe 385e18810f10 >> v2.52.0-25-g385e18810f >> >> shows that this bug is only present after 2.52.0 was released so unless you >> are using unreleased version of git (ex: some development version, including >> ones that are based on "next"), there is no need to "backport" this fix, as >> the next version you will use will include it. > > So the Linux Kernel (presumably) uses `Fixes` for backporting and/or > does *not* use it for commits that fix changes that have not been > released yet. Got it. I do not run, and I am not involved in, the Linux Kernel project. I am not sure if "is this fix something backporting folks should care about?" is the criterion they use in their project, but if it is, I think it does make a certain sense. I have mentioned my displeasure with use of "Fixes" in _this_ project before, but that was primarily based on the fact that you do not really know if a proposed commit really fixes or makes something else worse until your alleged "fix" cooks sufficiently long in the field, and I find it distasteful to make such an unsure thing easier to mechanically process. Thanks.