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Could we submit a change to the "git" tool to allow something like > > > the "Link" tag but hide it from the default settings? I'm thinking > > > something like how "git" only shows the Author/AuthorDate by default > > > until you say "--format=3Dfuller" and then it also shows you the > > > Commit/CommitDate. Then we just tell Linus to keep the setting off an= d > > > everyone is happy. > >=20 > > A place to stash metadata that: stays out of mainline, is readily > > available to the subsystem maintainer and anyone interacting with the > > submaintainer's tree, git notes. >=20 > The "problem" with git notes is that for those of us working with the > "whole tree" at times, we would then have to go and dig across all > subsystems to try to find where the notes are. So unless we have one > big "all the notes merged into one" tree somewhere, it's going to be > very unwieldy for many of us (i.e. all the distros/stable/release > people doing triage and bug reports.) Agree. I still expect 'b4 dig' is needed for that case, and I think per-subsystem notes can help it along. I.e. part of what it can do is walk a Link: in a pull / merge request to find the source git tree and then see if that tree has notes. Otherwise, it can fallback to attempting patch-id matching, or vice-versa, attempt patch-id first and fallback to trying to find notes.=