Short story: please add [am] messageid = true
to your .gitconfig. Long story. git-am can add a Message-id: tag. Looks like this: commit 335dbb5de1e98c4dc73590349f17bb2a4d72596c Author: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> Date: Mon Feb 4 09:25:43 2019 +0100 Commit: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> CommitDate: Mon Feb 4 15:25:21 2019 +0000 tests/docker/test-mingw and docs: Remove --with-sdlabi=2.0 Patchew currently reports failures with the mingw docker test - this is due to --with-sdlabi=2.0 configure flag which does not exist anymore. Remove this remainder from the docker test and the docs now. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> Acked-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> ---> Message-id: 1549268743-18502-1-git-send-email-th...@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> The Message-id identifies the patch e-mail. It makes finding the review thread easier and more reliable. It's also a valid key on Patchew[*]. Sadly, not all of our commits don't carry it. Here's how top committers have been doing recently[**]: with without 264 21 Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> 65 2 Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> 64 0 Laurent Vivier <laur...@vivier.eu> 64 0 Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> 62 1 Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> 56 0 Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> 29 72 Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org> 24 24 Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> 10 31 Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelb...@gmail.com> 0 107 Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> 0 106 David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> 0 93 Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> 0 81 Aleksandar Markovic <amarko...@wavecomp.com> 0 69 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org> 0 54 Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> 0 50 Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> 0 29 Anthony PERARD <anthony.per...@citrix.com> 0 28 Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com> Not bad, but there's room for improvement. [*] Try https://patchew.org/search?q=id%3A1549268743-18502-1-git-send-email-thuth%40redhat.com [**] git-log master --no-merges --pretty=fuller --since '3 months ago' | gawk '/^Commit: / { if (c) h[c][m]++; c=$0; m=0 } /^ Message-[Ii]d: / { m=1 } END { for (c in h) if (h[c][0] + h[c][1] > 25) printf "%7d %7d %s\n", h[c][1], h[c][0], substr(c,13) }' | sort -nr