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

Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-27T15:06:17Z

On Tue, 27 Aug 2019, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 06:30:11AM -0700, Dmitry Vyukov via Ksummit-discuss wrote:
> > If I am reading git help correctly, this won't handle changes with
> > more than 1 version. Also maintainers will be prohibited from doing
> > any changed to patches during commit.
>
> Or we are required to add more Link: tags or other annotations describing
> what we changed and why.

The point is that the Link: tag connects the commit to the email by
which it was submitted.

If the committer fixes something up when committing, then this still stays
the same connection.

So you have SHA1 + Message-ID. If the SHA1 changes and Message-ID stays
then same, then either the patch was amended or rebased. But you can figure
that out with diff.

Thanks,

tglx