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Message-ID: <20200820092221.GU2026@twin.jikos.cz>
Date:   Thu, 20 Aug 2020 11:22:21 +0200
From:   David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Luca Stefani <luca.stefani.ge1@...il.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the tip tree

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 07:15:02PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 10:21:49 +0200 Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 04:12:39PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > 
> > > Fixes tag
> > > 
> > >   Fixes: 9554bfe403nd ("x86/mce: Convert the CEC to use the MCE notifier")  
> > 
> > Hmm, this came from the original patch submission:
> > 
> > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200805095708.83939-1-luca.stefani.ge1@gmail.com
> > 
> > the 'n' is already there.
> 
> yeah, I wish people would just generate these lines:
> 
> git log -1 --format='Fixes: %h ("%s")' <commit-id>

FWIW, I'm using a script 'git-fixesline' that git also understands as a
subcommand 'git fixesline' with:

git --no-pager show -s --abbrev-commit --abbrev=12 --pretty=format:"Fixes: %h (\"%s\")%n" "$@"

(Dunno why not an alias but it works the same way.)