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

Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-08-23T12:48:25Z

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Clicking on the Change-Id doesn't have any effect or do I miss the
feature completely?? It open up in similar window in another tab...not
sure that is what required. I mean what's the point of having redundent
window open in two different browser tab??

Wondering!!

~Bhaskar

On 11:09 Fri 23 Aug 2019, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>On 8/23/19 4:58 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> So yes, I'd *much* rather see that "Link" line than try to make a
>> "Change-ID" line be a thing.
>>
>> Of course, looking at that particular link, my initial reaction is
>> "people are bad spellers". The word 'amend' has a single 'm' ;)
>>
>> And it _is_ important that the link in question is stable, of course.
>> Some systems have problems with that. Is that "c/1158" actually a
>> stable long-lived name that will stay around as the thing is modified?
>> I don't know how that system works.
>
>Looks like there are also links that include the change-id, and redirect
>to the shorter one, i.e.
>https://linux-review.googlesource.com/q/I3268f9036512c4378cde1da37e0612b43ed4d384
>
>Seems to me like that's "the best of both worlds" - a link you can
>click, and also a unique ID that can perhaps outlive the particular
>website and you can search for it elsewhere in the future, if there are
>other mirrors. Exactly like the message id's in links to lore.kernel.org.
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