Re: [PATCH] doc: Add git commands to generate Fixes

From: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
To: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>, Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Add git commands to generate Fixes
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 14:38:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <688de547-896b-da29-9137-44cf2c20227a@xen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b57628b8cf8355a5f4f32e6ea577689ae7450a69.1659537759.git.bertrand.marquis@arm.com>

Hi Bertrand,

On 03/08/2022 15:43, Bertrand Marquis wrote:
> Add git commands examples that can be used to generate fixes and how to
> use the pretty configuration for git.
> This should make it easier for contributors to have the right format.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
> ---
>   docs/process/sending-patches.pandoc | 4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/process/sending-patches.pandoc b/docs/process/sending-patches.pandoc
> index 7ff7826c992b..9c4c4655323b 100644
> --- a/docs/process/sending-patches.pandoc
> +++ b/docs/process/sending-patches.pandoc
> @@ -102,6 +102,10 @@ E.g.:
>   
>       Fixes: 67d01cdb5518 ("x86: infrastructure to allow converting certain indirect calls to direct ones")
>   
> +If git was configured as explained earlier, this can be retrieved using
> +``git log --pretty=fixes`` otherwise ``git log --abbrev=12 --oneline`` will
> +give the proper tag and title.

Rather than "proper tag", do you mean "commit-id"?

Other than that:

Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>

Cheers,

-- 
Julien Grall