Subject: Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the usb-gadget tree

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:39:30 +1100

Hi Bryan,

On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 02:08:55 +0000 Bryan O'Donoghue <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> On 16/01/2020 01:58, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 01:45:25 +0000 Bryan O'Donoghue <[email-masked]> wrote:  
> >>
> >> On 16/01/2020 01:41, Stephen Rothwell wrote:  
> >>> Hi Bryan,
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 01:19:22 +0000 Bryan O'Donoghue <[email-masked]> wrote:  
> >>>>
> >>>> How should extra long fixes like this be divided up ?  
> >>>
> >>> Just let them run on even if they are too long i.e. don't split them at all.  
> >>
> >> That's what's in the git commit log though isn't it ?  
> > 
> > When you add a Fixes: tag to a commit, you quote the subject line of
> > the commit you are fixing which, by definition, is a single line.  We
> > want to keep it that way so it can be searched for easily.
> > 
> > So to create a fixes line you can use this:
> > 
> > git log -1 --format='Fixes: %h ("%s")' <commit being fixed>
> > 
> > i.e. in this case:
> > 
> > $ git log -1 --format='Fixes: %h (\"%s\")' 40d133d7f5426
> > Fixes: 40d133d7f542 ("usb: gadget: f_ncm: convert to new function interface with backward compatibility")
> >   
> 
> doh sorry still not seeing it
> 
> git remote -v
> usb-next	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git 
> (fetch)
> 
> git fetch usb-next
> git show 5b24c28cfe13
> 
> that's a correctly formatted fixes right i.e. the same one as above
> 
> :(
> 
> not seeing the difference...

Now I see our confusion.  There is another version of this patch in
Felipe's tree as a different commit (6a6ae4e8e926) which has the Fixes
tag split ...

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell