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

[Nicholas Mc Guire]

On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 01:41:44PM +0200, Greg KH 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.

yup - the above command assumes that it is set in the contfig but
you can pass it in for git log as well - same options basically

git log -1 --abbrev-commit --abbrev=12 --pretty=format:"Fixes: %h (\"%s\")"

thx!
hofrat