This adds Kees' clever apply hook to the kernel documentation so it can be easily references when needed. Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2019-July/006608.html Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> --- ChangeLog v1->v2: - Make the document part of maintainer/configure-git.rst - Did not try to separate out to a standalone script file, the thing needs to come with other command line interaction anyway --- Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst b/Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst index 78bbbb0d2c84..80ae5030a590 100644 --- a/Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst +++ b/Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst @@ -32,3 +32,33 @@ You may also like to tell ``gpg`` which ``tty`` to use (add to your shell rc fil :: export GPG_TTY=$(tty) + + +Creating commit links to lore.kernel.org +---------------------------------------- + +The web site http://lore.kernel.org is meant as a grand archive of all mail +list traffic concerning or influencing the kernel development. Storing archives +of patches here is a recommended practice, and when a maintainer applies a +patch to a subsystem tree, it is a good idea to provide a Link: tag with a +reference back to the lore archive so that people that browse the commit +history can find related discussions and rationale behind a certain change. +The link tag will look like this: + + Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/<message-id> + +This can be configured to happen automatically any time you issue ``git am`` +by adding the following hook into your git: + +.. code-block:: none + + $ git config am.messageid true + $ cat >.git/hooks/applypatch-msg <<'EOF' + #!/bin/sh + . git-sh-setup + perl -pi -e 's|^Message-Id:\s*<?([^>]+)>?$|Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/$1|g;' "$1" + test -x "$GIT_DIR/hooks/commit-msg" && + exec "$GIT_DIR/hooks/commit-msg" ${1+"$@"} + : + EOF + $ chmod a+x .git/hooks/applypatch-msg -- 2.23.0
