Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:52:26 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>, Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>,
       N?meth M?rton <nm127@freemail.hu>, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>,
       linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       cocci@diku.dk
Subject: Re: Changelog quality
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 01:04:52PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > > It would be nice if there was a way to link automatically a git commit
> > > to an archived copy of the email message in which it was originally 
> > > submitted.
> > 
> > Ingo has been doing this on some patches by putting a message-id field
> > in the signed-off-by area showing what lkml message a patch came from.
> > 
> > See git commit id 6432e734c99ed685e3cad72f7dcae4c65008fcab in Linus's
> > tree as an example of this.
> > 
> > I have no objection if people want to do this for any patches going
> > through my tree as well.
> 
> If it has to be included manually by the patch submitter then it isn't
> automatic.  Not to mention that the submitter would need to know the
> email's message-id before the email message was sent!
> 
> Something like this should belong in a maintainer's script.

Yeah, that would get messy, as usually a patch happens in a different
thread than the original problem occurs, so it would take a lot more
work on my part to try to match things up.  If I notice it, I will try
to in the future.

thanks,

greg k-h
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