Re: b4: ty: User-flow regression

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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.

thanks,

greg k-h