From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The fixes-bug field Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:55:58 +0200 Message-ID: <83d2jr3ly9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140116141315.CA3BE380835@snark.thyrsus.com> <20140116163011.GC17303@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389891374 14659 80.91.229.3 (16 Jan 2014 16:56:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:56:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 16 17:56:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W3qEo-0006bm-K4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:56:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33735 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3qEo-0006IU-Aw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:56:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44812) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3qEg-0006D9-Nh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:56:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3qEb-0001CB-ST for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:56:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:56417) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3qEb-0001C1-KL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:56:01 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MZI007006YUDS00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:56:00 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MZI007XS71BAA10@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:56:00 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20140116163011.GC17303@thyrsus.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168540 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:30:11 -0500 > From: "Eric S. Raymond" > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Stefan Monnier : > > > TL;DR: Possible, but a serious PITA. If this is just an It Would Be Nice > > > rather than being key to an established workflow I'd rather not go there. > > > > The "fixes" info is important. Not just "would be nice". > > Maybe there are other ways to preserve it (e.g. "bzr log", collect the > > "Fixes" notes and then pass them to "git notes" somehow). > > > > Which format is used to keep the "fixes" info in the Git repository is > > not terribly important, but the info should appear in the "git > > log" output. > > OK, I'll come up with something. Thanks. I think we should decide on how to store this info and how to report the fixed bugs once we switch to git, before we decide on how to convert this data from bzr, and whether or not this justifies a new conversion from scratch rather than reuse of the existing mirror.