On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 01:35:11PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 06:18:11PM +0100, Stephen Finucane wrote: > > ...to track evolution of a patch through time. > > > > tl;dr: How hard would it be to retrofit an 'ChangeID' concept à la the 'Change- > > ID' trailer used by Gerrit into git core? > > I just started working on this for b4, with the notable difference that the > change-id trailer is used in the cover letter instead of in individual > commits, which moves the concept of "change" from a single commit to a series > of commits. IMO, it's much more useful in that scope, because as series are > reviewed and iterated, individual patches can get squashed, split up or > otherwise transformed. You can turn that around and say that IDs of individual commits are more powerful because they are preserved as series are reviewed, split, merged, and commits cherry-picked. Thanks Michal
