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[209.85.221.175]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ada2fe7eead31-4b608f86a63sm3741758137.16.2025.01.12.02.54.33 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 12 Jan 2025 02:54:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-vk1-f175.google.com with SMTP id 71dfb90a1353d-5189105c5f5so2112714e0c.0; Sun, 12 Jan 2025 02:54:33 -0800 (PST) X-Forwarded-Encrypted: i=1; AJvYcCW7LCXL/k3fAi782k0+X+oZrVTF6B4T27JjkbSuMGZyYjoiRKY4DOwffHIK6M4zIKy6VLcGqd36mB2x2d+h@vger.kernel.org, AJvYcCWLWa6hi+2dBonwV2peT+BY0fbQ8wZHhfoBU3KK22NeBBMnCP4YoCdaOOi2i9dk4sSZORbteCA1Bhc=@vger.kernel.org, AJvYcCWxZUz19WAz6+N/r45HmD57uh81NG3PvMviGacp6uV8C83CiScMzqLNID5HTTf+FYvJpIMnnZ9okoeq@vger.kernel.org X-Received: by 2002:a05:6102:38c8:b0:4b2:5ca3:f82a with SMTP id ada2fe7eead31-4b3d0dd08b6mr15826979137.7.1736679272990; Sun, 12 Jan 2025 02:54:32 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20250110080331.04645768@gandalf.local.home> <52541f79-ba1c-49c9-a576-45c3472d1c79@intel.com> <20250111120935.769ab9a3@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <20250111120935.769ab9a3@gandalf.local.home> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 11:54:21 +0100 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: X-Gm-Features: AbW1kvZA6Tb8TFzuviqQnF-fwAUNvyH5HZEKrzD7_oBtcZOXXyKMxvDdqMHE6SA Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add short author date to Fixes tag To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Jacob Keller , Yeking@red54.com, kuba@kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , "Theodore Ts'o" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andy Whitcroft , Joe Perches , Dwaipayan Ray , Lukas Bulwahn , Andrew Morton , workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tech-board-discuss@lists.linux.dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Steven, On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 6:08=E2=80=AFPM Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:21:35 -0800 > Jacob Keller wrote: > > > I personally find the date helpful as it can help place a commit withou= t > > needing to take the extra time to do a lookup. > > I've never found dates to be meaningful. I'm always more concerned about > when a commit was added to mainline. Thus the version where the commit wa= s > added is very important for me. This is why I keep a bare clone of Linus'= s > tree and commonly do: > > $ git describe --contains fd3040b9394c > v5.19-rc1~159^2~154^2 > $ git describe --contains a76053707dbf > v5.15-rc1~157^2~376^2~4 > > I can easily see that a76053707dbf was added in 5.15 and fd3040b9394c was > added in 5.19. The amount of work needed to add dates to Fixes tags would > greatly exceed the amount of added work someone would need to do to do th= e > above operations if they wanted to know the order of commits. FTR, while I do not support adding dates to Fixes-tags, I would just need to make a small modification to my fixes alias: $ git help fixes 'fixes' is aliased to 'show --format=3D'Fixes: %h ("%s")' -s' Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert --=20 Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k= .org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. Bu= t when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like t= hat. -- Linus Torvalds