Re: [PATCH] Add short author date to Fixes tag

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Steven,

On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:21:35 -0800
> Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I personally find the date helpful as it can help place a commit without
> > needing to take the extra time to do a lookup.
>
> I've never found dates to be meaningful. I'm always more concerned about
> when a commit was added to mainline. Thus the version where the commit was
> added is very important for me. This is why I keep a bare clone of Linus's
> tree and commonly do:
>
>  $ git describe --contains fd3040b9394c
> v5.19-rc1~159^2~154^2
>  $ git describe --contains a76053707dbf
> v5.15-rc1~157^2~376^2~4
>
> I can easily see that a76053707dbf was added in 5.15 and fd3040b9394c was
> added in 5.19. The amount of work needed to add dates to Fixes tags would
> greatly exceed the amount of added work someone would need to do to do the
> above operations if they wanted to know the order of commits.

FTR, while I do not support adding dates to Fixes-tags, I would just
need to make a small modification to my fixes alias:

$ git help fixes
'fixes' is aliased to 'show --format='Fixes: %h ("%s")' -s'

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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