linux-kernel - Re: Git pull ack emails..

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Message-ID: <20181023094535.GH2103@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Tue, 23 Oct 2018 10:45:35 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...tlin.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@...il.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Git pull ack emails..

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 12:35:22PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 10:10:47AM +0100, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > So I feel that he automation model is just not good. The reply should
> > go to the actual pull request, not to the git history. People who want
> > just _that_ could already automate the git history thing without me
> > even doing anything at all, either scripting it themselves or by using
> > some filtering on the kernel commit mailing list..

> Can you tag merge commit with message-id of the pull request?
> Automation machinery can reply to the pull request with proper CC list
> obtained from the archive?

If you're doing that you could even just put all the info you'd get from
the e-mail like the CC list into the tag (or git note or whatever), no
need to bounce to a list archive.

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