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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst•de>
Cc: Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger•kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat•com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Fixes tags need some work in the dma-mapping-fixes tree
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 23:13:59 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190123231359.286ac584@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190123230915.18046ca7@canb.auug.org.au>

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Hi Christoph,

On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 23:09:15 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:19:33 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst•de> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 07:47:47AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:  
> > >   - SHA1 should be at least 12 digits long    
> > 
> > When did we decide on that?  As far as I know it was bumped to 10
> > a while ago.  12 basically makes the line even more unreadable.  
> 
> From Documentation//process/submitting-patches.rst:
> 
> "If your patch fixes a bug in a specific commit, e.g. you found an issue using
> ``git bisect``, please use the 'Fixes:' tag with the first 12 characters of
> the SHA-1 ID, and the one line summary."

That paragraph was added by commit

  8401aa1f59975 ("Documentation/SubmittingPatches: describe the Fixes: tag")

commited by Linus on 2014-06-07 (before it got moved to the .rst file).

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-23 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-22 20:47 linux-next: Fixes tags need some work in the dma-mapping-fixes tree Stephen Rothwell
2019-01-23  7:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-23 12:09   ` Stephen Rothwell
2019-01-23 12:13     ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2019-01-23 10:50 ` Thierry Reding

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