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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The fixes-bug field
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:31:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlhyelm2e.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52D8E29F.6040004@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:58:23 -0800")

> With git, I'd prefer using a commit message that matches what's in
> the ChangeLog entry, as that's simpler anyway.   I.e., I'd rather use
> this commit message:
> 	Fix misdisplay of interlaced GIFs with libgif5 (Bug#16372).

That's good enough for me, yes.  Having a more strongly formalized form
(as used in Bzr) can be handy to add backlinks from the bug tracker's
web pages to related commits, tho.

Also, the first line tends to be longish already, so it might be
preferable to place it at the end instead.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-17 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-16 14:13 The fixes-bug field Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-16 16:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-16 16:30   ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-16 16:55     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-16 17:54       ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-16 18:09         ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-16 18:38         ` Darren Hoo
2014-01-16 19:32           ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-16 20:06             ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-16 21:30               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-16 21:24           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-16 18:55         ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-16 19:13           ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-16 20:25             ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-16 18:08       ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-16 18:36         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-16 20:04           ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-16 21:29             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-16 21:47               ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-17  7:32                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-17  7:58                   ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-17  8:04                     ` Jarek Czekalski
2014-01-17  9:21                       ` Yuri Khan
2014-01-17 14:31                     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-01-17 15:57                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-01-17 16:12                         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-17 17:20                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-01-18  9:19                         ` Jarek Czekalski
2014-01-18 16:02                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-01-17 13:16                   ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-17 13:55                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-17 14:26                   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-16 17:00     ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-16 17:22     ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-16 17:57       ` Glenn Morris
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-01-16 14:15 Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-16 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-17 20:29   ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-18  7:51     ` Eli Zaretskii

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