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

Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-23T19:23:22Z

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.

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.

Thanks,

tglx