Subject: Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the spi-nor tree

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 19:48:11 +1000

Hi,

On Fri, 29 May 2020 07:31:47 +0000 <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> Right. Maybe it is worth to add this kind of check in checkpatch.pl. One can 
> generate the Fixes tag by adding an alias in .gitconfig:
> 
> [alias]
>         fixes = show --format='Fixes: %h (\"%s\")' -s

I usually suggest

	git log -1 --format='Fixes: %h ("%s")' <SHA>

but pretty much the same.  The trick is to make sure you have a new
enough version of git and make sure that core.abbrev is not set (or set
to "auto").
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell