Re: Maintainers, please add Message-Id: when merging patches

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 12:30:03PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Around 66% of qemu.git commits since v4.1.0 include a Message-Id: tag.  
> > Hooray!
> >
> > Message-Id: references the patch email that a commit was merged from.
> > This information is helpful to anyone wishing to refer back to email
> > discussions and patch series.
> 
> So I guess the ones that don't are maintainer originated patches unless
> you actively rebuild your trees from a posted series?

This is what I usually do, using Stefan's "patches" utility.  That'll
pick up both message-id and any tested/reviewed/acked-by tags in
replies.

cheers,
  Gerd