[sorry, once again I have to sent it a second time, as vger rejected it; thunderbird once again messed for some reason used "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit" then it should have used 8bit; I tried to track this down by sending mails to myself, but then it sets 8bit correctly when needed :-/ ] On 12.10.21 22:03, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Lo! The regression tracking bot I'm working on can automatically mark an >> entry as resolved, if the commit message of the fix uses a 'Link' tag to >> the report. Many developers already place them, but it afaics would >> improve matters to make this more explicit. Especially as I had missed >> the modified section myself at first, as I simply grepped for 'Link:' >> and only found an explanation in configure-git.rst. >> >> Konstantin after posting v1 suggested to use lore.kernel.org instead or >> lkml.kernel.org, which made me add a patch to realize this everywhere in >> the docs. >> >> v2: >> - slightly reword after suggestiones from Konstantin (thx!) >> - make this a patch series with an preparatory patch that does >> s!lkml.kernel.org!lore.kernel.org! everywhere in the docs >> >> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7dff33afec555fed0bf033c910ca59f9f19f22f1.1633537634.git.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ >> - initial version >> >> Ciao, Thorsten >> >> Thorsten Leemhuis (2): >> docs: use the lore redirector everywhere > > OK, I've applied this one, thanks. Thx! >> docs: submitting-patches: make section about the Link: tag more >> explicit Yeah, totally fine. > There was a comment on this one, so I've not (yet) applied it. > > FWIW, I, too, have the Link: tags put in automatically when I apply a > patch, as Jani described; it's a simple hook in > .git/hooks/applypatch-msg. That seems worth mentioning here more than > instructions on how to construct the link - I doubt many people do it > manually. Well, that is already explained in Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst afaics -- which is the better place afaics, as that is something maintainers should do, and not something people should do when submitting a patch. Ciao, Thorsten
