[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC pre-GLEP] Gentoo Git Workflow

[Duncan]

Michał Górny posted on Tue, 25 Jul 2017 10:05:06 +0200 as excerpted:

> ===Commit messages===

[...]

> Historically, Gentoo has been using a few tags starting with <kbd>X-
> </kbd>. However, this practice was abandoned once it has been pointed
> out that git does not enforce any standard set of tags, and therefore
> indicating non-standard tags is meaningless.

Thanks for this historical note.  I hadn't noticed, but if I had, I might
have found the usage and then abandonment confusing, and this clears it
up. =:^)

> Gentoo developers are still frequently using <kbd>Gentoo-Bug</kbd> tag,

s/developers are still frequently using/developers still frequently use/

The (past and continuing) tense that you're (apparently) trying to use,
while common in other languages, isn't one English treats separately.

> sometimes followed by <kbd>Gentoo-Bug-URL</kbd>. Using both
> simultaneously is meaningless (they are redundant), and using the former
> has no advantages over using the classic <kbd>#nnnnnn</kbd> form in the
> summary or the body.

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