26 Oct
2018
26 Oct
'18
9:02 a.m.
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org writes:
Note that the stable tag above lacks a version comment (e.g. "# 4.19"), but I can see how that may be too subtle to convey this (and not all maintainers use those). Perhaps an explicit comment should just be added in such cases.
I have always thought that the inclusion of a "Fixes" tag made such comments redundant. A simple "git tag --contains .." returns the same info, and is more likely to be correct...
Or am I missing something?
I see the problem with matching up fixes to backported commits, but I've assumed the stable maintainers all keep a small "database" of backported commits to make such tasks easier. That's what I would have done, and they are much smarter than me ;-)
Bjørn