linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the usb-gadget tree

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Message-ID: <20200116125851.474f3021@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:   Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:58:51 +1100
From:   Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:     Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@...aro.org>
Cc:     Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the usb-gadget tree

Hi Bryan,

On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 01:45:25 +0000 Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> On 16/01/2020 01:41, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Bryan,
> > 
> > On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 01:19:22 +0000 Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@...aro.org> wrote:  
> >>
> >> How should extra long fixes like this be divided up ?  
> > 
> > Just let them run on even if they are too long i.e. don't split them at all.  
> 
> That's what's in the git commit log though isn't it ?

When you add a Fixes: tag to a commit, you quote the subject line of
the commit you are fixing which, by definition, is a single line.  We
want to keep it that way so it can be searched for easily.

So to create a fixes line you can use this:

git log -1 --format='Fixes: %h ("%s")' <commit being fixed>

i.e. in this case:

$ git log -1 --format='Fixes: %h (\"%s\")' 40d133d7f5426
Fixes: 40d133d7f542 ("usb: gadget: f_ncm: convert to new function interface with backward compatibility")

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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