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Date:   Sat, 4 Jun 2022 10:37:57 +1000
From:   Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To:     Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Cc:     Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
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        Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the drm tree
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Hi Rob,

On Fri, 3 Jun 2022 07:58:14 -0700 Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> will the truncated subject confuse the scripts that look for patches
> to backport to stable, ie. do we *really* have to rewrite history to
> fix this?

I don't know what scripts are being used and what they expect, but our
documentation says (Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst):

  If your patch fixes a bug in a specific commit, e.g. you found an issue u=
sing
  ``git bisect``, please use the 'Fixes:' tag with the first 12 characters =
of
  the SHA-1 ID, and the one line summary.  Do not split the tag across mult=
iple
  lines, tags are exempt from the "wrap at 75 columns" rule in order to sim=
plify
  parsing scripts.

But, that being said, doing the rewrite is up to the maintainer.  You
could just look at this as a learning experience and do better in the
future.

BTW, my script reacted to the missing closing quotes and parentheses,
which is more like to confuse any scripts that the actual truncation.
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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