How to generate Fixes: <commit> ("<text>") things

[Greg KH]

On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 12:38:01PM +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 06:28:39PM +0800, wuzhouhui wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Stupid question, maybe. But I just could find the answer vi Bing or Google.
> > 
> > How to generate
> >     Fixes: <commit> ("<text>")
> > E.g.
> >     Fixes: 298a32b13208 ("kmemleak: powerpc: skip scanning holes in the .bss section")
> > 
> > Or they just write it manually?
> >
> starting with documentation in th kernel might be better than
> google or bing
> 
> <snip Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst>
>    The following git config settings can be used to add a pretty format
>    for outputting the above style in the git log or git show commands:
> [core]
>         abbrev = 12
> [pretty]
>         fixes = Fixes: %h (\"%s\")
> <snip>
> 
> or on the commandline you can simply use
> 
> git log -1 --pretty=format:"Fixes: %h (\"%s\")" SHA 

Here's what I, and many other, kernel developers use:
	git show -s --abbrev-commit --abbrev=12 --pretty=format:"Fixes: %h (\"%s\")%n"

Probably does the same thing, but doesn't require you to set 'abbrev=12'
in your git config if you don't want to.

Nice to see that's this is now documented.

greg k-h