linux-kernel - Re: AUTOSEL process

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Date:   Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:09:47 -0500
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:     David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
        "'Sasha Levin'" <sashal@...nel.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        "viro@...iv.linux.org.uk" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: AUTOSEL process

On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 05:41:07AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> 
> I suspect that having an option to keep the message ID in the footer (a
> bit like the "cherry-picked from" tag but instead "blongs to series")
> could possibly help. And when no such info is present we could have
> one ID generated per "git am" execution since usually if you apply an
> mbox, it constitutes a series (but not always of course, though it's
> not difficult to arrange series like this).

As I pointed out earlier, some of us are adding the message ID in the
footer alrady, using a Link tag.  This is even documented already in
the Kernel Maintainer's Handbook, so I'm pretty sure it's not just me.  :-)

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/maintainer/configure-git.html#creating-commit-links-to-lore-kernel-org

This is quite sufficient to extract out the full patch series given a
particular patch.  The b4 python script does this this; given a single
Message-Id, it can find all of the other patches in the series.  I
won't say that it it's "trivial", but the code already exists, and you
can copy and paste it from b4.  Or just have your script shell out to
"b4 am -o /tmp/scratchdir $MSGID"

						- Ted