I have used a GitHub-PR header to refer to the GitHub pull request where a patch originated in a couple of cases. This results in the commit getting automatically linked back to the pull request on github. Document this as a format that can be used to refer to pull requests.
Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <russ...@ovn.org> --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 1e1d573..c7ef13e 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ Examples of common tags follow. VMware-BZ: #1234567 ONF-JIRA: EXT-12345 + GitHub-PR: #100 If a patch fixes or is otherwise related to a bug reported in a private bug tracker, you may include some tracking ID for @@ -223,6 +224,7 @@ Examples of common tags follow. identifier to make the origin clear, e.g. "VMware-BZ" refers to VMware's internal Bugzilla instance and "ONF-JIRA" refers to the Open Networking Foundation's JIRA bug tracker. + “GitHub-PR” refers to a pull request for OVS on GitHub. Bug #1234567. Issue: 1234567 -- 2.5.0 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev