Date:   Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:12:27 +0100
From:   Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc:     Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>,
        'Sasha Levin' <sashal@kernel.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
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        "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: AUTOSEL process
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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

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Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
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