Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/1] docs: add the new commit-msg tags 'Reported:' and 'Reviewed:'

From: Eric Wong
Date: Fri Nov 26 2021 - 12:13:45 EST


Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ccing Linus Walleij, who added this, and Kees, who apparently came up
> with this originally.
>
> On 23.11.21 19:52, Eric Wong wrote:
> > Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst b/Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst
> >> index 80ae5030a590..8429d45d661c 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst
> >> +++ b/Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst
> >
> > <snip>, +cc git@vger
> >
> >> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ by adding the following hook into your git:
> >> $ cat >.git/hooks/applypatch-msg <<'EOF'
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >> . git-sh-setup
> >> - perl -pi -e 's|^Message-Id:\s*<?([^>]+)>?$|Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/$1|g;' "$1"
> >> + perl -pi -e 's|^Message-Id:\s*<?([^>]+)>?$|Reviewed: https://lore.kernel.org/r/$1|g;' "$1"
> >
> > Side note: that regexp should match "Message-ID" case-insensitively.
> > git send-email is an outlier in its capitalization of "Message-Id",
> > most RFCs capitalize it "Message-ID", as do common MUAs.
>
> Argh :-/
>
> It's still totally unclear if that or a similar patch will be accepted.
> And even if it is: the "don't do two different things in one commit"
> rule might not be that strict enforced when it comes to the Linux
> kernel's docs, but changing this regexp as part of another patch crosses
> the line.
>
> IOW: we afaics need a separate patch to make the regexp
> case-insensitively. Eric, do you want to submit one, as you brought it
> up? Or are there any other volunteers?

I suggest you turn this into a 2 patch series to avoid conflicts
for a trivial change. I don't even have a kernel worktree handy
at the moment (ENOSPC :x)