[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] patman: Use the Change-Id, version, and prefix in the Message-Id

[Simon Glass]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 14:15, Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> As per the centithread on ksummit-discuss [1], there are folks who
> feel that if a Change-Id is present in a developer's local commit that
> said Change-Id could be interesting to include in upstream posts.
> Specifically if two commits are posted with the same Change-Id there's
> a reasonable chance that they are either the same commit or a newer
> version of the same commit.  Specifically this is because that's how
> gerrit has trained people to work.
>
> There is much angst about Change-Id in upstream Linux, but one thing
> that seems safe and non-controversial is to include the Change-Id as
> part of the string of crud that makes up a Message-Id.
>
> Let's give that a try.
>
> In theory (if there is enough adoption) this could help a tool more
> reliably find various versions of a commit.  This actually might work
> pretty well for U-Boot where (I believe) quite a number of developers
> use patman, so there could be critical mass (assuming that enough of
> these people also use a git hook that adds Change-Id to their
> commits).  I was able to find this git hook by searching for "gerrit
> change id git hook" in my favorite search engine.
>
> In theory one could imagine something like this could be integrated
> into other tools, possibly even git-send-email.  Getting it into
> patman seems like a sane first step, though.
>
> NOTE: this patch is being posted using a patman containing this patch,
> so you should be able to see the Message-Id of this patch and see that
> it contains my local Change-Id, which ends in 2b9 if you want to
> check.
>
> [1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2019-August/006739.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Add a "v" before the version part of the Message-Id
> - Reorder the parts of the Message-Id as per Johannes.
>
>  tools/patman/README         |  8 +++++-
>  tools/patman/commit.py      |  3 ++
>  tools/patman/patchstream.py | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  3 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>