Re: Consensus on removal of Change-Id commit-msg hook/git trailer?

[Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.]

On 2026-05-29 at 14:28+09:00, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to see if we can build consensus on the removal of the
> Change-Id git trailer, as proposed in
> <https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/1740> (and hinted at in GCD-003).
>
> For context, the Change-Id hook was initially added so that we could
> eventually have a system with Mumi where we it could scan for issues to
> close automatically if a PR commit(s) Change-Ids had already been added
> to the tree.  This hasn't materialized, and now that we are on Codeberg,
> we're still carrying the mildly annoying Change-Ids as a legacy, which
> get in the way when amending commit messages.
>
> They provide some value in that you can search Codeberg for a Change-Id
> to find the PR in which it was reviewed/merged, but I doubt many of us
> are using this on a regular basis (?). I'd also propose that if this is
> important to us we should look into baking it in a git commit header
> instead [0], which would both be more robust and remove the commit
> message clutter.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> [0]  some related discussion: 
> <https://lore.kernel.org/git/z_ogmb-1ov0ex...@pks.im/T/#m2e6a57d8aeefd3146c7632e89dc36e2a0a8f68ba>
>
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Maxim