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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 24/09/2026 10:22, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > 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. > Also, people could explain their branches in ABOUT page... https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/krzk/linux.git/about/ Best regards, Krzysztof