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SubjectRe: Tagging of -stable patches
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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balbi
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