On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 02:07:44PM GMT, Kees Cook wrote:

On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 02:24:07PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

quoted

+   This URL should be used when referring to relevant mailing list
+   topics, related patch sets, or other notable discussion threads.
+   A convenient way to associate ``Link:`` trailers with the commit
+   message is to use markdown-like bracketed notation, for example::
...
+     Link: https://lore.kernel.org/some-msgid@here # [1]
+     Link: https://bugzilla.example.org/bug/12345  # [2]

Why are we adding the extra "# " characters? The vast majority of
existing Link tags don't do this:

That's just convention. In general, the hash separates the trailer from the
comment:

    Trailer-name: actual-trailer-body # comment

-K