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

Paul Mackerras
2019-08-26T22:19:57Z

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 08:03:51PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 7:58 PM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > So yes, I'd *much* rather see that "Link" line than try to make a
> > "Change-ID" line be a thing.
>
> Tangential note: since it looks like "Link:" lines are going to get
> more common in general, maybe somebody with the right tck/tk-fu can
> make a tool like 'gitk' be able to just do the hyperlinking thing (it
> already does it for commit hashes in the commit message, but wouldn't
> it be convenient to do that for web links too and open a browser
> tab?).

I just posted a patch to do that to the git mailing list (see
https://marc.info/?l=git&m=156685770100577&w=2). I'll commit it after
people have had a chance to comment on the regexp for detecting links
and the choice of web browser command for each platform.

Paul.