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 23:29:29 +0200 Message-ID: <83zjmv1upy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140116141315.CA3BE380835@snark.thyrsus.com> <20140116163011.GC17303@thyrsus.com> <83d2jr3ly9.fsf@gnu.org> <20140116180809.GB17770@thyrsus.com> <8338kn3ha8.fsf@gnu.org> <20140116200456.GK17770@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389907779 27041 80.91.229.3 (16 Jan 2014 21:29:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:29:39 +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 22:29:44 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 1W3uVT-0008Pd-S5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:29:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35060 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3uVT-0007it-7d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:29:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53829) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3uVM-0007hw-Id for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:29:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3uVH-0002Qw-Mg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:29:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:45514) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3uVH-0002Qi-EU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:29:31 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MZI00900JG3CE00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:29:30 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MZI009GQJP58B60@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:29:30 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20140116200456.GK17770@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:168581 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:04:56 -0500 > From: "Eric S. Raymond" > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > There wouldn't be a --fixes sitch in git itself, if that's what you mean. > We could I suppose supply a wrapper command that would interpret it. I think we need to figure out these details and more or less agree on them, before converting the repository (if needed). The worst thing that can happen is to invest all that effort, only to find out later that adding more "fixes bug NNN" commits don't work well, or that there's a much more easy/elegant way of doing that.