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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if two commits are posted with the same Change-Id there's a reasonable chance that they are either the same commit or a newer version of the same commit.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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