Re: Changelog quality

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 18:44, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:29:07PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Stefan Richter wrote:
>>
>> > If it was by mistake, inclusion of the find-and-replace script into the
>> > patch posting *after the --- delimiter* might have increased the chance
>> > that a patch reviewer becomes aware of a possible error source
>> > (inadequate match patterns...). ÂSo that could be useful during review
>> > before commit, but not so much if the change is revisited some time
>> > after commit.
>>
>> Somewhat tangentially, it's worth mentioning that the comments
>> appearing after the "---" delimiter exist only in the original patch
>> submissions, not in the final commits. ÂHence they are not available to
>> anyone reviewing the changes after acceptance.
>>
>> It would be nice if there was a way to link automatically a git commit
>> to an archived copy of the email message in which it was originally
>> submitted.
>
> Ingo has been doing this on some patches by putting a message-id field
> in the signed-off-by area showing what lkml message a patch came from.
>
> See git commit id 6432e734c99ed685e3cad72f7dcae4c65008fcab in Linus's
> tree as an example of this.
>
> I have no objection if people want to do this for any patches going
> through my tree as well.

While the idea behind this is definitely nice, I don't like the
current implementation: it's not really an `lkml reference', but just
the message ID of the email that contained the patch.
Which means it doesn't contain any reference to an lkml archive, but
instead it casts into `git-stone' the host and domain names of my
private machines at home ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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