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

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 09:27:54AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Alex Bennée <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> I recommend using the exact same workflow for constructing pull requests
> whether you wrote the patches yourself or not.

Yes, that's the approach I follow too.  I use the 'patches' tool to
apply patch series, including my own.

It's necessary to get the Revewied-by:, Tested-by:, etc tags squashed in
automatically anyway.

Stefan

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