Re: b4: ty: User-flow regression

[Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2025, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote:

> 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:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wj5MATvT-FR8qNpXuuBGiJdjY1kRfhtzuyBSpTKR+=Vtw@mail.gmail.com/

Okay, this works.  Looks like b4 now supports that in `master` as:

52d380965c71 ("Set default linkmask to patch.msgid.link")

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]