linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add short author date to Fixes tag

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Message-ID: <f2ea6923-60dd-445d-8534-03e80c21bf5b@sirena.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:08:15 +0000
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>, Yeking@...54.com,
	kuba@...nel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>,
	Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	workflows@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tech-board-discuss@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add short author date to Fixes tag

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 09:51:01AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:

> > $ git help fixes
> > 'fixes' is aliased to 'show --format='Fixes: %h ("%s")' -s'

> Hmm, I've just been manually adding the Fixes tags ;-) That's because when
> I add a fixes tag, I also do a more in depth analysis to make sure the
> commit being tagged is really the cause of the problem. A lot of my fixes
> tags are due to very subtle bugs, and a lot of times its a combination of
> event that happened.

> That said, maybe one day I'll use a script or alias in the future.

I use an alias like that for manually adding fixes tags, to get
everything in the right format.

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