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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/13/25 05:25, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > On 2025-10-13 07:53, James Bottomley wrote: >> There has been a lot of discussion on the tooling list about how the >> loss of link trailers has updated both tooling and triaging issues. >> Konstantin has proposed a tool to get around this, but while that's in >> development, I propose a discussion about making Link (or some >> alternative tag) into the pointer that would work for everyone. > > 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. > > I think it's important to spell out the problem this is trying to > solve from the get go. > > Based on prior email discussions I've seen, I don't think Linus is > convinced that tagging commits with a unique identifier brings value, > whereas people actively developing and using tools based on a > workflow that relies on patch revision tracking see a lot of value > in this. > > Putting this in context may help listing the possible solutions that > go beyond links and evaluate the best solution. For instance, gerrit > uses change id tags such as: > > Change-Id: I9bfbee7a3219c3f293cee2bafce7233ec34d3e84 > > to track the various revisions of a patch. Unlike "Link" tags, it is > clear that it's only meant to be a unique identifier for the various > revisions of a patch, and it's not meant to be used as a link. > It also does not (necessarily) track patch revisions, and I would find it confusing if it did. Gerrit supports tracking patch revisions. That mechanism that would be defeated if a new revision would get a new Change-Id. Guenter