Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs: introduce dedicated page about code provenance / sign-off

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 23.11.2023 um 18:16 hat Daniel P. Berrangé geschrieben:
> > Suggested-by is also common.
> > 
> > As long as we are here, let's document Fixes: and Cc: ?
> 
> The submitting-a-patch doc covers more general commit message information.
> I think this doc just ought to focus on tags that identify humans involved
> in the process.
> 
> I've never been sure what the point of the 'Cc' tag is, when you actually
> want to use the Cc email header ? 

By default, git-send-email automatically copies the addresses mentioned
with Cc: in the commit message, so I always assumed that this is what
people intend with these tags.

Of course, in practice many of us have suppresscc = "all" in their
config to avoid downstream accidents, so maybe there is another use?

The only time I use it is for "Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org". I'm not sure
if it still works like this, but people used to look for this in the
commit history when preparing stable releases. (It's useful because
sometimes people forget to actually CC the qemu-stable list when sending
the patches.)

Kevin