From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0017.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.17]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7B83E3043C1 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:36:37 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=216.40.44.17 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1760377000; cv=none; b=Q1rtHUTmyv+mk6WteOsXz8mD9X4nJp+uem19I1AinAWYYQuPL3RDS8zT/Vz3vDIl6f2G+TECGwX0u7oUNT+B4FsuabU9ztcUlD3ebIZc39CZdjAq+QB4u2uUcC7iqBet5i9sbM42MPI0R6mdt610L5OjiQjxfaF1XZiy1axyxkI= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1760377000; c=relaxed/simple; bh=/UofpfoXuwVoei1oBARYxDgiKrJetRQ8aUj5eZjEFN8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=mTwWs+XYTMfMmQCBxs8PRKa9LGfTulEvWbnD9b8BYIg706mBQUIQDoVJZf5rasN6frmSGf5xs/Nvsw+GZEWLQ1vP/UiNMTSxRDUOWV0f+urbqcxX8rhhbA5DWSXbtJNTO/CbEwIlufluXuK4zw9WHp1nehV8L0rgOvBVtRtLWl4= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=goodmis.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=goodmis.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=216.40.44.17 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=goodmis.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=goodmis.org Received: from omf16.hostedemail.com (a10.router.float.18 [10.200.18.1]) by unirelay08.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24692140587; Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:36:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: rostedt@goodmis.org) by omf16.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 870802000D; Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:36:34 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:36:37 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: James Bottomley , "ksummit@lists.linux.dev" Subject: Re: Replacing Link trailers Message-ID: <20251013133637.040132f1@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <6b188d9e-3d47-4a30-8452-3e57e09cf8e3@efficios.com> References: <6b188d9e-3d47-4a30-8452-3e57e09cf8e3@efficios.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.20.0git84 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Stat-Signature: i9ihky1ix9hxdga3qf1rg8c5gshqwbqm X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout03 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 870802000D X-Session-Marker: 726F737465647440676F6F646D69732E6F7267 X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX1+/7DBNlGyiFmf+Quus/kTeHoNt9HpV5N8= X-HE-Tag: 1760376994-788945 X-HE-Meta: U2FsdGVkX18zrslD65MuF8PArEo6lPkFa3Q5SXGLB+zWLKGR9pM/URWp+mj5zUcaDUMZpANbbyWF6No7iP6VFVAyZwcqgKG8vwzA4XkaLTO1xBIek3C6t1SzkmSCdJmLBW158aKoaoQewdasLGBKNu4W5rfNnybX5UdkZ+uVvXB3D1P6oDACwTrNGT7fQnOrdPT5/mdtMd49VFpaDnxiWjOCLGoHlE5PLT/tgWZ12CoiZIfER1aYkkdEcId2MNrLTHzIfTsVC0rHSHPfbbeIWieuG0UgHhpWAyeroGT+fp29veIJR2wv2cDaVkFFJRP5lVcC//8jNQqzZaOhveqgHw01VKY9Ccts28sI7iXtZrjLlsoG88hdQY4o1Hu2wa5q6fDoAp48lgHFOPA1Q8U7gg== On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:25:01 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > AFAIU. this use of Link trailer is used as a strategy to work around > the lack of unique identifier in patch commit messages that identifies > multiple revisions of a patch, for tracking by patch review tooling > and facilitate digging through patch history. That's not how I use it at all. Copying my reply from the tooling thread here: [..] So it allows you to not only find the cover letter of a series, but also daisy chains all the links to previous versions so you can see how the patch was developed, and all the comments to the older versions. Now my workflow incorporates these link tags. When I need to create a new version of the patch, I save the old git branch with its version: git branch topic-v1 git reset --hard Then I download the old version from patchwork, run my scripts to pull it in (which adds the links to the emails of those commits). And when I make the next version, I record the changes by replacing the: Link: https://lore.kernel.org/... With Changes since v1: https://lore.kernel.org/... And before sending my emails, I move that text below the '---'. And this makes it very easy to incorporate the daisy chain. If I have to use any external tooling to search for it, I'm not going to bother, and this workflow will just stop happening. -- Steve