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pick-ui: add Backport-to: XX.Y nomination

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Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
Cc: mesa-stable
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/13664>
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@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Patch formatting
Acked-by: Joe Hacker <jhacker@foo.com>
- When updating a merge request add all the tags (``Acked-by:``, ``Reviewed-by:``,
``Fixes:``, ``Cc: mesa-stable`` and/or other) to the commit messages.
``Fixes:``, ``Backport-to:`` and/or other) to the commit messages.
This provides reviewers with quick feedback if the patch has already
been reviewed.
@@ -131,8 +131,17 @@ is the preferred way to nominate a commit that should be backported.
There are scripts that will figure out which releases to apply the patch
to automatically, so you don't need to figure it out.
Alternatively, you may use a "CC:" tag. Here are some examples of such a
note::
Alternatively, you may use the ``Backport-to:`` tag, as presented in the
following example::
Backport-to: 21.0
Multiple ``Backport-to:`` lines are allowed.
The last option is deprecated and mostly here for historical reasons
dating back to when patch submision was done via emails: using a ``Cc:``
tag. Support for this tag will be removed at some point.
Here are some examples of such a note::
Cc: mesa-stable
Cc: 20.0 <mesa-stable>