Re: tip: New "Link:" tag to replace "LKML-Reference:"

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Apr 07 2011 - 11:20:53 EST


On 04/07/2011 08:03 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> D'0h ok.. but the scheme would work with any generated msgid, all we
> need is to generate one for commits that lack a Link tag and insert it
> using the prepare-commit-msg/commit-msg hooks and for the post-commit
> hook to recognize it and use that actual msgid.
>
> The only thing to avoid is msgid collision, but given that MUAs already
> have this problem all we need to do is borrow some of their logic.
>

OK, this doesn't really need any hooks at all (the tip-bot is not a
hook). The committer is, and *has to be* responsible for getting the
unique string into the Link: tag, through whatever means they feel is
appropriate.

Based on the previous message, I'm going to modify the bot to recognize
the pattern:

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/tip-`ranpwd -l 24`@git.kernel.org

... to override the Message-ID. It seems like the least ugly of a lot
of ugly options.

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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