Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Allowing something Change-Id (or something like it) in kernel commits

Joel Fernandes
2019-08-23T19:31:57Z

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 3:23 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2019, Joel Fernandes via Ksummit-discuss wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 3:08 PM Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> wrote:
> > > Another thing that could be done is, have the git hook insert the
> >
> > And, here I meant have git-send-email or the patch sending program
> > insert the unique ID into the discardable part.
> >
> > In my flow, I have scripts that remove metadata from my commit message
> > and insert them into the discardable part of the patch already which I
> > use for "additional notes". I am not sure what it would take to have
> > people use such scripts...
>
> Well, if some organization wants those IDs or whatever then they will come
> up with proper tooling which enforces this. We won't ever be able to
> enforce it on every submitter on the planet.

Agreed.

> For maintainers we can make the Message-ID link mandatory if the community
> agrees on it. git has some form of support for that already as I learned in
> some other thread. And adding it to homebrewn tooling is not rocket science
> either.

Yep. I am curious now what support exists in git for this. I'll try to
look for that up, thanks!

- Joel