On 2023-09-09, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
> Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> writes:
>>> Did you see my message about integrating a commit-hook similar to what
>>> Gerrit uses?  It produces unique ID such as:
>>>
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>> Change-Id: I9b86781869d80eda347659f0c009b8dfe09bdfd0
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
...
>> That seems like it would only work if the patch was identical, as
>> opposed to a slightly rebased patch on top of newer patches on master?
>>
>> How can you correlate Change-Id to a patch in the tracker?
>
> The Change-Id stays the same unless you manually edit it out of your
> commit message when amending / rebasing, so the commit hash may change
> while the Change-Id stays the same.  So you can rebase your feature
> branch on master and share a v2, whose existing commits will have the
> same Change-Ids (newly added commits would get their own Change-Id
> trailer).

Ok, that makes some sense.

Although the majority of bugs in the cleanup work I did were actually
filed by someone else entirely... so the Change-Id will not help with
those. Not a reason not to implement it, but not consistent with some of
the triggers of this thread. :)

live well,
  vagrant