Re: [GIT PULL] virtio: last minute fixup

From: Konstantin Ryabitsev
Date: Wed May 11 2022 - 12:31:32 EST


On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 11:40:59PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > I think we should simply disambiguate the trailer added by tooling like b4.
> > Instead of using Link:, it can go back to using Message-Id, which is already
> > standard with git -- it's trivial for git.kernel.org to link them to
> > lore.kernel.org.
>
> But my mailer, editor and terminal don't know what to do with a Message-Id.
>
> Whereas they can all open an https link.
>
> Making people paste message ids into lore to see the original submission
> is not a win. People make enough fun of us already for still using email
> to submit patches, let's not make their job any easier :)

Okay, I'm fine with using a dedicated trailer for this purpose, perhaps an
"Archived-At"? That's a real header that was proposed by IETF for similar
purposes. E.g.:

Archived-at: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgAk3NEJ2PHtb0jXzCUOGytiHLq=rzjkFKfpiuH-SROgA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

-K