Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add Internal-reference-ID: patch tag

[Florian Mickler]

On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:12:13 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:36:41 -0400 Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Introduce "Internal-reference-ID:" for company-internal
> > > patch tracking.  Also clarify that URLs in patches should be
> > > public, not private.
> > >
> > > Based on emails from Greg Kroah-Hartman.
> > >
> > > Internal-reference-ID: rdunlap.2011.0729.id1
> > >
> > What's the point of this for individuals ? Couldn't the Message-id
> > from the mail be re-used ?
> > 
> >  - Arnaud
> 
> Individuals or companies might like to track their upstream patches
> easily.  A pseudo-random message-id doesn't do that (for me).

Also when parsing the changelog it is nice to be able to skip those
lines by common prefix. Without prefix you can easily get
trapped by the <id-text> having similar patterns to what you look
for. 

Regards,
Flo
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