Editing commits creates a lot of problems. May I suggest that we start a file that lists the exceptions that you've noticed and check that into our source tree? That will give everyone access to fix things when they recognize it. It would look like:
75b679c54c9088434678da2a4d89122620903d72 hive-1234 e8520424879d07e50ea07c28a671251e95c382f6 hive-1235 Of course there may be multiple commits for the same jira, especially on different branches. .. Owen .. Owen On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 2:30 AM, Lefty Leverenz <leftylever...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > ... we should put the commit log in the corresponding > > JIRA comment as a cross-reference. > > > > I've only noticed one more slip-up since the end of April, but still think > this is a good idea. > > Any more suggestions? > > > -- Lefty > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Xuefu Zhang <xzh...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > Yes, for that, I think we should put the commit log in the corresponding > > JIRA comment as a cross-reference. I have to admit that I had to fix > commit > > message for a few of my svn commits in the past. > > > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Lefty Leverenz <leftylever...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > > > Found a negative answer to #2 in some ASF instructions > > > <http://www.apache.org/security/committers.html> for security issues > > > (*underline > > > added*): > > > > > > 15. The log for the svn commit that applied the fix is updated to > > include > > > > the CVE number. Projects that use git as their primary source code > > > control > > > > system should not do this as *editing a pushed commit causes all > sorts > > of > > > > problems*. > > > > > > > > > All the more reason to be careful about the JIRA number when you > commit a > > > patch. > > > > > > > > > -- Lefty > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 2:57 AM, Lefty Leverenz < > leftylever...@gmail.com > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Since switching to git, three commits have had the wrong JIRA number. > > > Two > > > > were typos and the third one gave the umbrella issue's number. > > > Fortunately > > > > the correct issue could be found by searching for the summary text. > > > > > > > > 1. How can we reduce this failure rate? > > > > 2. Can JIRA numbers be fixed after-the-fact in commit records? > > > > 3. Should JIRA issues track commit IDs? > > > > > > > > -- Lefty > > > > > > > > > >
