On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 01:04:52PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Greg KH wrote: > > > > It would be nice if there was a way to link automatically a git commit > > > to an archived copy of the email message in which it was originally > > > submitted. > > > > Ingo has been doing this on some patches by putting a message-id field > > in the signed-off-by area showing what lkml message a patch came from. > > > > See git commit id 6432e734c99ed685e3cad72f7dcae4c65008fcab in Linus's > > tree as an example of this. > > > > I have no objection if people want to do this for any patches going > > through my tree as well. > > If it has to be included manually by the patch submitter then it isn't > automatic. Not to mention that the submitter would need to know the > email's message-id before the email message was sent! > > Something like this should belong in a maintainer's script. Yeah, that would get messy, as usually a patch happens in a different thread than the original problem occurs, so it would take a lot more work on my part to try to match things up. If I notice it, I will try to in the future. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
