From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The fixes-bug field Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:26:44 -0500 Message-ID: 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> <83zjmv1upy.fsf@gnu.org> <20140116214714.GA19493@thyrsus.com> <83sisn12sk.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389968830 3399 80.91.229.3 (17 Jan 2014 14:27:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:27:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 17 15:27:13 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 1W4AO8-00048y-Ti for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:27:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38557 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4AO8-0008Vg-89 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:27:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60311) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4ANw-0008Kl-Be for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:27:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4ANp-0001hK-4S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:27:00 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:52902) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4ANh-0001fQ-D0; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:26:45 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFMCoyj/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IfAQVWIxALNBIUGA0kiCTBLZEKA4hhnBmBXoMV X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFMCoyj/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IfAQVWIxALNBIUGA0kiCTBLZEKA4hhnBmBXoMV X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="45182711" Original-Received: from 76-10-140-163.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.140.163]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 17 Jan 2014 09:26:44 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 9647D6019C; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:26:44 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83sisn12sk.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:32:43 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:168611 Archived-At: > (Note that I say "related to" because "fixes" might be inaccurate: we Very much so, indeed. The point for me is that a "bug#NNN" in the VCS is a concise way to provide extra context about the commit, just in the same way we use it in comments in the code. IOW it serves so that when in a few years's time you'll be looking at these few lines of code and wonder why on earth we did it that way, you can go see what was the corresponding bug, which may even include a handy test case. Stefan