Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:18:29 +0200 | From | Florian Mickler <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add Internal-reference-ID: patch tag |
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On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:12:13 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:36:41 -0400 Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote: > > > From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> > > > > > > Introduce "Internal-reference-ID:" for company-internal > > > patch tracking. Also clarify that URLs in patches should be > > > public, not private. > > > > > > Based on emails from Greg Kroah-Hartman. > > > > > > Internal-reference-ID: rdunlap.2011.0729.id1 > > > > > What's the point of this for individuals ? Couldn't the Message-id > > from the mail be re-used ? > > > > - Arnaud > > Individuals or companies might like to track their upstream patches > easily. A pseudo-random message-id doesn't do that (for me).
Also when parsing the changelog it is nice to be able to skip those lines by common prefix. Without prefix you can easily get trapped by the <id-text> having similar patterns to what you look for.
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