On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 02:37:03PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > Hello stable maintainers, > While working on some backports I'm about to send hopefully today or > tomorrow, I was curious why the convention seems to be for folks to > use "commit <sha> upstream." in commit messages? I know that's what's > in https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html#option-3, > but I was curious whether the format from `git cherry-pick -xs <sha>` > is not acceptable? I assume there's context as to why not? It is nice > to have that info uniformly near the top, but I find myself having to > cherry-pick then amend a lot. Or is there an option in git to > automate the stable kernel's preferred style? There is no option in git, but I do have a script: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/scripts/c2p that takes a git id and turns it into the format we use. I think Sasha has one somewhere as well that does it in a nicer way (mine is in perl and hard-codes a lot of stuff). thanks, greg k-h
