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    patman: Use the Change-Id, version, and prefix in the Message-Id · 833e4192
    Douglas Anderson authored and Simon Glass's avatar Simon Glass committed
    As per the centithread on ksummit-discuss [1], there are folks who
    feel that if a Change-Id is present in a developer's local commit that
    said Change-Id could be interesting to include in upstream posts.
    Specifically if two commits are posted with the same Change-Id there's
    a reasonable chance that they are either the same commit or a newer
    version of the same commit.  Specifically this is because that's how
    gerrit has trained people to work.
    
    There is much angst about Change-Id in upstream Linux, but one thing
    that seems safe and non-controversial is to include the Change-Id as
    part of the string of crud that makes up a Message-Id.
    
    Let's give that a try.
    
    In theory (if there is enough adoption) this could help a tool more
    reliably find various versions of a commit.  This actually might work
    pretty well for U-Boot where (I believe) quite a number of developers
    use patman, so there could be critical mass (assuming that enough of
    these people...
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