Subj : [$] A policy for Link tags
To   : All
From : LWN.net
Date : Fri Sep 12 2025 06:40:08

The Git source-code management system stores a lot of information about
changes to code - but it does not hold everything that might be of interest
to a developer who needs to investigate a specific change in the future.
Commits in a repository are the end result of a (sometimes extended)
discussion; often, that discussion will result in changes to the code that
are not explained in the changelog.  For some years now, many maintainers
have followed the convention of applying a Link tag to commits that points
back to the mailing-list posting of the change.  Linus Torvalds has been
expressing his dislike for this convention for a while, though, and its
time appears to be coming to an end.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1037069/
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