Re: b4: ty: User-flow regression

["Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>]

On 10/21/25 12:56, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2025, Greg KH wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 10:37:22AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
>> > On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 03:34:52PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
>> > > > Next question is -- have you recently stopped adding Link: tags to your
>> > > > commits? :)
>> > > 
>> > > Oooo, yes!  Yes, I have!
>> > > 
>> > > Why would that make a difference?
>> > 
>> > When patches have been altered by the maintainer, we can no longer match them
>> > by git-patch-id.
>> 
>> Which is the primary reason to keep the Link: stuff.  Many maintainers
>> manually change patches to fix up minor things all the time, and without
>> the Link: it's a major pain to find (the LF sponsored a whole project
>> just to do the backwards mapping for many years, but no one used it...)
>> 
>> > In the past, when we found a Link: trailer, we could still
>> > match their provenance by message-id, but if that is gone, we can no longer
>> > fall back to that. I am working on making the "ty" mechanism being less
>> > dependent on that -- hopefully the master branch should become more useful to
>> > you again in the near future.
>> 
>> message-id is important to track somehow, we need that link.
> 
> It turns out that going back to manually thanking contributors is too
> much of a regression for me ATM.  For now at least, against Linus'
> wishes (sadly), I'm putting Link:s back in.
 
Linus later said he would tolerate them with the https://patch.msgid.link
domain:

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