Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jan 2019 23:13:59 +1100 | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: linux-next: Fixes tags need some work in the dma-mapping-fixes tree |
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Hi Christoph,
On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 23:09:15 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:19:33 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 07:47:47AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > - SHA1 should be at least 12 digits long > > > > When did we decide on that? As far as I know it was bumped to 10 > > a while ago. 12 basically makes the line even more unreadable. > > From Documentation//process/submitting-patches.rst: > > "If your patch fixes a bug in a specific commit, e.g. you found an issue using > ``git bisect``, please use the 'Fixes:' tag with the first 12 characters of > the SHA-1 ID, and the one line summary."
That paragraph was added by commit
8401aa1f59975 ("Documentation/SubmittingPatches: describe the Fixes: tag")
commited by Linus on 2014-06-07 (before it got moved to the .rst file).
-- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |