Re: git commit messages

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 04/23/2009 08:47 AM, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Frédéric (fredp) is suggesting to also propose a standard scheme to
> > reference bugs that are fixed by a commit (so we can script things if
> > it's needed one day -- that's similar to what Debian does).
> >
> > Something like "Closes: #123456" or "Fixes: #123456".
> >
> > This should probably live in the longer explanation since the short
> > explanation is limited in size...
> >
> > (Then we can also reference other bug trackers when needed: bnc#12345,
> > rh#12345, lp#12345, etc.)
>
>   That would be excellent, thanks!  However please consider using:
>      GNOME #1234
>   one issue with the Debian closes: is that it doesn't indicate Debian,
>   which is why Nokia, Ubuntu etc. all use different prefixes to refer to
>   their bugs.  Using "GNOME #1234" would allow terminals to link to
>   bugzilla.gnome.org directly for instance.

I prefer the more verbose "GNOME Bug #1234" in that case.

And I opened a bug yesterday to allow configuring such matchers on 
gnome-terminal: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579859

behdad