Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Documentation: best practices for using Link trailers

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 27.06.24 01:17, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 6/26/24 4:13 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 02:07:44PM GMT, Kees Cook wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 02:24:07PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
>>>>> +   This URL should be used when referring to relevant mailing list
>>>>> +   topics, related patch sets, or other notable discussion threads.
>>>>> +   A convenient way to associate ``Link:`` trailers with the commit
>>>>> +   message is to use markdown-like bracketed notation, for example::
>>>>> ...
>>>>> +     Link: https://lore.kernel.org/some-msgid@here # [1]
>>>>> +     Link: https://bugzilla.example.org/bug/12345  # [2]
>>>>
>>>> Why are we adding the extra "# " characters? The vast majority of
>>>> existing Link tags don't do this:
>>>
>>> That's just convention. In general, the hash separates the trailer from the
>>> comment:
>>>
>>>     Trailer-name: actual-trailer-body # comment
>>
>> Did we ever come to a conclusion on this?  This one character seems to
>> be the main source of disagreement in this series, I'm wondering if I
>> should just apply it and let the painting continue thereafter...?
> 
> We have used '#' for ages for adding comments to by: tags.
> I'm surprised that it's not documented.

I thought it was documented, but either I was wrong or can't find it.
But I found process/5.Posting.rst, which provides this example:

        Link: https://example.com/somewhere.html  optional-other-stuff

So no "# " there. So to avoid inconsistencies I guess this should not be
applied, unless that document is changed as well.

Ciao, Thorsten