Re: Replacing Link trailers

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Mon, 2025-10-13 at 08:40 -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 4:53 AM James Bottomley
> <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> 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.
> 
> A few random ideas to throw out there:
> 
> 1. 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=fuller" and then it also shows you the
> Commit/CommitDate. Then we just tell Linus to keep the setting off
> and everyone is happy.

Just on this, git format actually controls the amount of information it
prints from the headers rather than the trailers (the git tools are
really designed to treat the trailers simply as body text).  However,
that's not to say Link couldn't become a header tag instead of a
trailer.

Regards,

James