Hi Rob,
On Fri, 3 Jun 2022 07:58:14 -0700 Rob Clark robdclark@gmail.com wrote:
will the truncated subject confuse the scripts that look for patches to backport to stable, ie. do we *really* have to rewrite history to fix this?
I don't know what scripts are being used and what they expect, but our documentation says (Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst):
If your patch fixes a bug in a specific commit, e.g. you found an issue using ``git bisect``, please use the 'Fixes:' tag with the first 12 characters of the SHA-1 ID, and the one line summary. Do not split the tag across multiple lines, tags are exempt from the "wrap at 75 columns" rule in order to simplify parsing scripts.
But, that being said, doing the rewrite is up to the maintainer. You could just look at this as a learning experience and do better in the future.
BTW, my script reacted to the missing closing quotes and parentheses, which is more like to confuse any scripts that the actual truncation.