Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Referencing bug reports in git (WAS: Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: sci-libs/opencascade/)
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2015 14:54:48
Message-Id: 55C769A9.9030305@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Referencing bug reports in git (WAS: Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: sci-libs/opencascade/) by Dirkjan Ochtman
1 On 08/09/2015 10:43 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
2 > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 4:38 PM, hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:
3 >>> I don't really see why it has to be so verbose. Can we just make it
4 >>> "bug 557022", or even #557022? That would also make it fit better if
5 >>> you have a single-line commit message only.
6 >>
7 >> I think "X-Gentoo-Bug: 557022" also makes the job easier for tools that
8 >> parse commit messages.
9 >
10 > I don't. Just the "bug " prefix should be fine for almost all
11 > purposes, even for tools.
12 >
13 > Also, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648.
14 >
15
16 There's a "standard" set of patch tags all in the style of RFC822
17 headers -- Signed-off-by, Acked-by, Suggested-by, etc. are all common:
18
19 https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
20
21 X-Gentoo-Bug is just following that example for metadata.