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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com>, "Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	"Palmer Dabbelt" <palmer@sifive.com>,
	"Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	"Max Filippov" <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>,
	"Aleksandar Markovic" <amarkovic@wavecomp.com>,
	"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>,
	"Anthony PERARD" <anthony.perard@citrix.com>,
	"Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	"David Gibson" <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Maintainers, please git-am -m
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 10:13:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3a486f6-6b72-2950-9fdd-706c2f69c616@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0o24u0s.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org>

On 2/8/19 1:30 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Short story: please add
> 
>     [am]
>             messageid = true
> 
> to your .gitconfig.
> 
> Long story.  git-am can add a Message-id: tag.  Looks like this:
> 

> 
>         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 find the tag valuable enough in later git searches that I don't mind
feeding my own patches back through the mailing list to add it (patchew
helps with that, of course).  But for it to become mandatory, we'd need
to enhance scripts/checkpatch.pl to enforce it.

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-25 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-08  7:30 [Qemu-devel] Maintainers, please git-am -m Markus Armbruster
2019-02-08  7:45 ` Thomas Huth
2019-02-08 10:31   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-02-08  8:57 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-08 10:34   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-02-08 16:07 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-02-08 16:59   ` Markus Armbruster
2019-02-08 17:18   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-02-25 16:13 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2019-02-26  7:15   ` Markus Armbruster
2019-02-26 14:14     ` Eric Blake

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