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

Stephen Rothwell
2019-08-27T07:02:44Z

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Hi Paul,

On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 08:19:49 +1000 Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Looks good here. And saves me the pain of relearning enough Tcl to do
the patch myself :-)

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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