Re: [Qemu-devel] Maintainers, please git-am -m

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 08:30:11 +0100
Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:

> Short story: please add
> 
>     [am]
>             messageid = true
> 
> to your .gitconfig.
> 
> Long story.  git-am can add a Message-id: tag.  Looks like this:
> 
>     commit 335dbb5de1e98c4dc73590349f17bb2a4d72596c
>     Author: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>     Date:   Mon Feb 4 09:25:43 2019 +0100
>     Commit:     Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
>     CommitDate: Mon Feb 4 15:25:21 2019 +0000
> 
>         tests/docker/test-mingw and docs: Remove --with-sdlabi=2.0
> 
>         Patchew currently reports failures with the mingw docker test - this
>         is due to --with-sdlabi=2.0 configure flag which does not exist anymore.
>         Remove this remainder from the docker test and the docs now.
> 
>         Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>         Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
>         Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
>         Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
>         Acked-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> --->    Message-id: 1549268743-18502-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com  
>         Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> 
> The Message-id identifies the patch e-mail.  It makes finding the review
> thread easier and more reliable.  It's also a valid key on Patchew[*].

I'm using it for anything I git am, but I'm usually not git am'ing my
own patches (I just merge from the branch I have them on). Is the
message id valuable enough to warrant the extra round-trip for patches
that are committed by the authors themselves?

[I can't say I've used it much myself, if at all.]