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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 24/09/2026 05:35, Matthias Goergens wrote: > T: entries have named a branch after the repository URL since commit > a1aa5a770dc3 ("MAINTAINERS: update hwmon subsystem git trees"), and > 109 of the 846 git T: lines do so today. Commit 083bf9c56d06 > ("get_maintainer: add more --self-test options") taught > get_maintainer.pl to parse that optional branch and check it with git > ls-remote. The preamble, however, still describes T: as it did after > commit 50306fb5398f ("[PATCH] Clarify T: field in MAINTAINERS"), as > "tree type and location", and does not mention the branch. > > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst sends contributors to the > T: entry to find the tree to prepare patches against. When > development happens on a branch other than the repository's HEAD, a > branch-less entry points them at the wrong tree; on 2026-09-24, 173 of > the 273 repositories named without a branch had a HEAD that mainline > already contained. > > Document the existing practice and say when to name a branch. > > Suggested-by: Theodore Ts'o > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/arSMwd1bGO1vrif-@mit.edu/ > Signed-off-by: Matthias Goergens > --- > Ted, as I said in my reply on the ext4 patch > (https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260924033200.3615554-1-matthias.goergens@gmail.com/), > I'm sending only a few of the per-tree T: patches for now, and would > value your view before sending the rest. > > MAINTAINERS | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index cc3cae2e378b..6edc17d66b44 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ Descriptions of section entries and preferred order > See Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst for details. > T: *SCM* tree type and location. > Type is one of: git, hg, quilt, stgit, topgit > + A git entry may name a branch after the URL; name one when > + development does not happen on the repository's HEAD. What is repository's HEAD? The one ref in remotes/origin/HEAD? Pointing almost always to the master branch? I think no one works on master branch, because that mirrors origin/master. So basically this would expect EVERY tree entry to be renamed... and then - which branch - since almost all of us have more than one (at least fixes and for-next). Basically the DEFAULT is that you do not work on master. If you disagree, please point me where is the HEAD: https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/krzk/linux.git/ (and all branches are active, meaning nothing is stalled or some wip-dev work) I don't think this change in that form and naming is useful for developers. What contributors need is the branch feeding next, because this is the base for them. Best regards, Krzysztof