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| author | Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> | 2015-11-05 21:21:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2015-11-11 18:06:00 +0100 |
| commit | d7ac8d85d39f460df9204b875eb985e18a5c523b (patch) | |
| tree | fc010fa0764b883d6dbeac2f272b7205d18cddfe /Documentation/SubmittingPatches | |
| parent | Remove email address from Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt (diff) | |
| download | linux-d7ac8d85d39f460df9204b875eb985e18a5c523b.tar.xz linux-d7ac8d85d39f460df9204b875eb985e18a5c523b.zip | |
Documentation/SubmittingPatches: discuss In-Reply-To
Add a paragraph suggesting best practices for when to link patches
to previous LKML messages via In-Reply-To.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
[jc: moved the added text to a separate section]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/SubmittingPatches')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index fd89b04d34f0..0db4e106fbf0 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -718,8 +718,21 @@ generates appropriate diffstats by default.) See more details on the proper patch format in the following references. +15) Explicit In-Reply-To headers +-------------------------------- + +It can be helpful to manually add In-Reply-To: headers to a patch +(e.g., when using "git send email") to associate the patch with +previous relevant discussion, e.g. to link a bug fix to the email with +the bug report. However, for a multi-patch series, it is generally +best to avoid using In-Reply-To: to link to older versions of the +series. This way multiple versions of the patch don't become an +unmanageable forest of references in email clients. If a link is +helpful, you can use the https://lkml.kernel.org/ redirector (e.g., in +the cover email text) to link to an earlier version of the patch series. + -15) Sending "git pull" requests +16) Sending "git pull" requests ------------------------------- If you have a series of patches, it may be most convenient to have the |