The recommendation is based on the following rationale: - it makes the commit messages much cleaner and easy to read, especially on the screens of the mobile devices; - it reduces resources (memory, time, energy) to retrieve all these headers, which are barely needed by a mere user, as for automation they will be still available via mail archives, such as https://lore.kernel.org, assuming the Link: or Message-ID tag is provided. Let's be environment friendly and save the planet! Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst | 4 ++++ Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst b/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst index 90a7fe2a85f2..157b3fc0087a 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst @@ -276,6 +276,10 @@ for addition without the explicit permission of the person named; using Reported-by: is fine most of the time as well, but ask for permission if the bug was reported in private. +It's recommended to locate the additional Cc: tags after the cutter '---' line +in the patches as it makes sure the commit message won't be polluted with them. +At the same time they will be available via email headers on the mail archives, +such as https://lore.kernel.org. Sending the patch ----------------- diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst index 6775f0698136..0c898d9e00f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst @@ -491,6 +491,11 @@ automatically converted to the Cc: email header and you do not need to have an explicit ``Cc:`` tag, if the person is already mentioned by another tag. +It's recommended to locate the additional ``Cc:`` tags after the cutter '---' line +in the patches as it makes sure the commit message won't be polluted with them. +At the same time they will be available via email headers on the mail archives, +such as https://lore.kernel.org. + Co-developed-by: states that the patch was co-created by multiple developers; it is used to give attribution to co-authors (in addition to the author attributed by the From: tag) when several people work on a single patch. Since -- 2.43.0.rc1.1336.g36b5255a03ac
