On Sun 12-03-23 00:09:47, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 05:41:07AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > > I suspect that having an option to keep the message ID in the footer (a > > bit like the "cherry-picked from" tag but instead "blongs to series") > > could possibly help. And when no such info is present we could have > > one ID generated per "git am" execution since usually if you apply an > > mbox, it constitutes a series (but not always of course, though it's > > not difficult to arrange series like this). > > As I pointed out earlier, some of us are adding the message ID in the > footer alrady, using a Link tag. This is even documented already in > the Kernel Maintainer's Handbook, so I'm pretty sure it's not just me. :-) Yeah, given Linus' rants about links pointing to patch posting, what I'm currently doing is that I add Message-ID: tag to the patch instead of a Link: tag. It preserves the information as well and it is obvious to human reader what are links to reports / discussions and what is just a link to patch posting. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR
