Re: linux-next: manual merge of the mm tree with Linus' tree

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Mon Feb 27 2023 - 05:19:01 EST


On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 12:52:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2023 08:13:55 +0100 Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Re Link: Patches I pick up don't have Link [1] tags pointing to the
> > submission on lore as Linus had said in a discussion in 2022 that he
> > prefers to not have the lore links in the commit message at all.
>
> Surprised. What was his reasoning?

Sorry, it took me a while to track down the mail where he complained
about that:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220516045821-mutt-send-email-mst@xxxxxxxxxx/T/

I generally think they are useful but I also don't have a strong opinion
on this matter.