On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 09:47, Samuel Tardieu <s...@rfc1149.net> wrote: > However, this is not what QEMU has been using as far as I can see, > as S-o-b tend to stay in their original positions. I even opened > an issue on b4 a few weeks ago because of this > <https://github.com/mricon/b4/issues/16>, and I reverted to using > git-publish. But if this is ok to use an arbitrary order for > non-S-o-b headers, I can get back to b4.
I think QEMU doesn't have a specific existing practice here. What you see is largely the result of people using whatever tooling they have and accepting the ordering it gives them. So I don't think you should stop using b4 just because the ordering it happens to produce isn't the same as somebody else's tooling. I think trying to impose some subtle distinction of meaning on the ordering of tags is not going to work, because there are going to be too many cases where people don't adhere to the ordering distinction because they don't know about it or don't understand it. As Daniel says, as long as the Signed-off-by tags are in basically the right order for developer vs maintainer that's the only strong ordering constraint we have. thanks -- PMM
