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Message-ID: <4709c2fa-081f-4307-bc9e-eef928255c08@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:17:56 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
 Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>,
 Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
Cc: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao.osdev@...il.com>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 workflows@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, ksummit@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Documentation: best practices for using Link
 trailers



On 6/26/24 4:13 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org> writes:
> 
>> On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 02:07:44PM GMT, Kees Cook wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 02:24:07PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
>>>> +   This URL should be used when referring to relevant mailing list
>>>> +   topics, related patch sets, or other notable discussion threads.
>>>> +   A convenient way to associate ``Link:`` trailers with the commit
>>>> +   message is to use markdown-like bracketed notation, for example::
>>>> ...
>>>> +     Link: https://lore.kernel.org/some-msgid@here # [1]
>>>> +     Link: https://bugzilla.example.org/bug/12345  # [2]
>>>
>>> Why are we adding the extra "# " characters? The vast majority of
>>> existing Link tags don't do this:
>>
>> That's just convention. In general, the hash separates the trailer from the
>> comment:
>>
>>     Trailer-name: actual-trailer-body # comment
>>
> 
> Did we ever come to a conclusion on this?  This one character seems to
> be the main source of disagreement in this series, I'm wondering if I
> should just apply it and let the painting continue thereafter...?

We have used '#' for ages for adding comments to by: tags.
I'm surprised that it's not documented.

-- 
~Randy

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