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

[wuzhouhui]

> On May 9, 2019, at 7:41 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Thanks for all replies!

I have sticked at kernel of distros for a long time, and didn't noticed hat the
documentation has been changed a lot in upstream.

> 
> greg k-h