Re: [PATCH 0/3] add a message-id header to git
On Thu, Oct 16, 2025, at 20:57, James Bottomley wrote:
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> There has been some debate in the kernel community about how to link
> commits back to email, which is the basis of a lot of scripting we do
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit/a7878386f3546ba475cdf7250ab4f5a6af2a1676.camel@HansenPartnership.com/
>
> However, this problem is one that goes beyond the kernel, so having
> git always track the message-id of the email used to create the commit
> will be useful beyond our tools as well. The design of this
> message-id header is that it never shows up except in --pretty=raw
> output, so it will never be ordinarily visible, but can be extracted
> by scripts. Some projects use the -m flag of git-am to add the
> Message-Id to the trailers and for backwards compatibility, this
> functionality is not changed although it is hoped that it is now
> redundant.
Related discussions: “Change-ID”:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/aOQWWkj%2Fq7GfKZY7@nand.local/
https://lore.kernel.org/git/20250703074952.20737-1-drew@ddevault.org/
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAESOdVAspxUJKGAA58i0tvks4ZOfoGf1Aa5gPr0FXzdcywqUUw@mail.gmail.com/
Inspired by Gerrit, Git Butler, Jujutsu, according to the last link.