On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 09:00:49AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

> I recommend that we all stop beating the Link: trailer topic and sit on our
> hands until the above is either accepted or rejected by the git maintainers.

> IOW:

> - Keep current "mindless" Link: approach, with the patch.msgid.link domain for
>   automatically-added Link: trailers. It mitigates the problem of Linus
>   getting annoyed at the ambiguity, but keeps things working for maintainers
>   who are already dependent on these links being present.

> - Work with git maintainers to add commit provenance information into the
>   commit headers.

> - Reconvene at the upcoming maintainer summit to hammer out whatever remains
>   of the discussion.

> Would that work for everyone?

This seems sensible to me.

I will note that as a Debian stable user I'm expecting to get a new
version of git in roughly 2027, though I imagine there will be backports
available.