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On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 02:24:23PM +0200, J?rg R?del wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 11:23:11AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > And - once again - I want to complain about the "Link:" in that commit.
> 
> I have to say that for me (probably for others as well) those Link tags
> pointing to the patch submission have quite some value:
> 
> 	1) First of all it is an easy proof that the patch was actually
> 	   submitted somewhere for public review before it went into a
> 	   maintainers tree.
> 
> 	2) The patch submission is often the entry point to the
> 	   discussion which lead to this patch. From that email I can
> 	   see what was discussed and often there is even a link to
> 	   previous versions and the discussions that happened there. It
> 	   helps to better understand how a patch came to be the way it
> 	   is. I know this should ideally be part of the commit message,
> 	   but in reality this is what I also use the link tag for.
> 
> 	3) When backporting a patch to a downstream kernel it often
> 	   helps a lot to see the whole patch-set the change was
> 	   submitted in, especially when it comes to fixes. With the
> 	   Link: tag the whole submission thread is easy to find.
> 
> I can stop adding them to patches if you want, but as I said, I think
> there is some value in them which make me want to keep them.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Joerg

Yea, me too ... Linus, will it be less problematic if it's a different
tag, other than Link? What if it's Message-Id: <foo@bar>? Still a
problem?


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