On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 02:00:17AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > I'm not sure what you mean. The Link: trailer is added when the maintainer > > pulls in the series into their tree. It's not put there by the submitter. The > > maintainer marks a reliable mapping of "this commit came from this thread" and > > we the use this info for multiple purposes: > > You are overloading the terms here - "pull" as in (basically) git am and "pull" > as in git pull and its ilk... > > And I still don't understand how is that supposed to apply when patches are > _developed_ in git branches. In situation when submitter == maintainer. Then there's no external provenance, so there is no need for this kind of mapping. You will submit your changes as a pull request and you'll get notified when it's merged (via the PR tracker bot). There is a hybrid workflow as well: - maintainer develops a patch series - maintainer sends it to the list for review - maintainer pulls in the trailers In that case, we don't automatically put provenance trailers into patches, but you can still achieve the same result if instead of merging your local branch you merge the series from the list, but this is more of a corner case scenario. -K
