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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Patch version changes in
 commit logs?
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On Sat, 2019-07-06 at 16:02 +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 05/07/2019 13:24:57+1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> writes:
> > > Cc: tags are another git artefact.  They're how you tell git-
> > > send-email 
> > > where to send copies of the patch for review or notice, but they
> > > don't
> > > really provide any intrinsic historical value.
> > 
> > Right, but it wasn't clear to me if anyone felt that they *do* have
> > historical value. Seems not.
> > 
> 
> Some maintainers do think it is useful:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20171128161014.GG27409@jhogan-linux.mips
> tec.com/

Apart from stable, the only other cc I think is historically useful is
when I'm carrying a patch that impinges on another maintainer's tree
and they were cc'd for an ack which never arrived.  Then the cc in the
changelog tells Linus at least we tried.

James