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docs: 5.Posting.rst: describe Fixes: and Link: tags 

Explain Fixes: and Link: tags in Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst,
which are missing in this file for unknown reasons and only described in
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
CC: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c4a5f5e25fa84b26fd383bba6eafde4ab57c9de7.1641314856.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@ -197,14 +197,29 @@ the build process, for example, or editor backup files) in the patch. The
file "dontdiff" in the Documentation directory can help in this regard;
pass it to diff with the "-X" option.
The tags mentioned above are used to describe how various developers have
been associated with the development of this patch. They are described in
detail in
the :ref:`Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst <submittingpatches>`
document; what follows here is a brief summary. Each of these lines has
the format:
The tags already briefly mentioned above are used to provide insights how
the patch came into being. They are described in detail in the
:ref:`Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst <submittingpatches>`
document; what follows here is a brief summary.
::
One tag is used to refer to earlier commits which introduced problems fixed by
the patch::
Fixes: 1f2e3d4c5b6a ("The first line of the commit specified by the first 12 characters of its SHA-1 ID")
Another tag is used for linking web pages with additional backgrounds or
details, for example a report about a bug fixed by the patch or a document
with a specification implemented by the patch::
Link: https://example.com/somewhere.html optional-other-stuff
Many maintainers when applying a patch also add this tag to link to the
latest public review posting of the patch; often this is automatically done
by tools like b4 or a git hook like the one described in
'Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst'.
A third kind of tag is used to document who was involved in the development of
the patch. Each of these uses this format::
tag: Full Name <email address> optional-other-stuff