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

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Jan 13 2025 - 10:16:28 EST


On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 09:51:01AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

> Hmm, I've just been manually adding the Fixes tags ;-) That's because when
> I add a fixes tag, I also do a more in depth analysis to make sure the
> commit being tagged is really the cause of the problem. A lot of my fixes
> tags are due to very subtle bugs, and a lot of times its a combination of
> event that happened.

> That said, maybe one day I'll use a script or alias in the future.

I use an alias like that for manually adding fixes tags, to get
everything in the right format.

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