Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin at linuxfoundation.org> writes:
...>
> I think we should simply disambiguate the trailer added by tooling like b4.
> Instead of using Link:, it can go back to using Message-Id, which is
already
> standard with git -- it's trivial for git.kernel.org to link them to
> lore.kernel.org.
But my mailer, editor and terminal don't know what to do with a Message-Id.
Whereas they can all open an https link.
Making people paste message ids into lore to see the original submission
is not a win. People make enough fun of us already for still using email
to submit patches, let's not make their job any easier :)
> Before:
>
> Signed-off-by: Main Tainer <main.tainer at linux.dev>
> Link:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgAk3NEJ2PHtb0jXzCUOGytiHLq=rzjkFKfpiuH-SROgA at
mail.gmail.com
>
> After:
>
> Signed-off-by: Main Tainer <main.tainer at linux.dev>
> Message-Id: <CAHk-=wgAk3NEJ2PHtb0jXzCUOGytiHLq=rzjkFKfpiuH-SROgA at
mail.gmail.com>
>
> This would allow people to still use Link: for things like linking to
actual
> ML discussions. I know this pollutes commits a bit, but I would argue that
> this is a worthwhile trade-off that allows us to improve our automation and
> better scale maintainers.
I went back through the history and I'm pretty sure that the original use
for "Link:" was to link to the original submission, done by tip-bot
starting back in 2011:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f994d99cf140dbb637e49882891c89b3fd84becd
Prior to that there were no "Link:" tags, only "BugLink:".
But if people want to reclaim "Link:" for generic links then fine, but
let's still use a https link, just give it a different name.
eg. "PatchLink:", or "Submitted:" etc.
cheers