Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:42:50 +0200 | From | Felipe Balbi <> | Subject | Re: Tagging of -stable patches |
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Hi,
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 06:44:45PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question regarding tagging of patches targetted in -stable > kernels. We have this 'CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # something' tag. Now > inconvenient thing is that when I create a patch and have such tag in it, > then git-send-email will mangle the address because of the #. Now even if > git-send-email started to ignore the part after #, we don't really want
I started a discussion with git mailing list about that, fix coming soon ;-)
> stable@vger.kernel.org to get the patch since it is eligible for -stable > only after it is merged upstream. So the CC form of the tag seems to be > kind of inconvenient. Won't it be better to have some different tag?
the stable "robots" know that they should only take a patch once it hits upstream. Don't worry, just cc stable and let them handle the rest.
cheers
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