To be concrete, Andreas, I saw your commit of the "Avoid setting
markPending" changeset, and I thought "gee, I wonder how long that was on
reviewboard, and whether it got any ship-its, because I don't recall
reviewing it".  I was able to find it by searching my email for
"markPending" to see the review request (and to find out that it had only
been posted for just over four days and had not received any ship-its, or
any reviews at all---but that's a separate issue). It would have been much
easier to answer my initial question if there had been a link in your
commit message, and I can see the link being even more valuable when a long
time has passed since the review request was posted, or if the description
doesn't contain any particularly unique terms to simplify a search.

To answer Jason's question: it would be nice to have an automation system
where someone with sufficient permissions could just click on a patch on
reviewboard and the patch would automatically be committed; with that
process in place, it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to include the URL
in the commit message.  I know Ali has discussed some other tools that
enable this.  The easiest path to this kind of functionality might require
migrating to something other than reviewboard.

Steve


On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:38 AM Andreas Hansson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> No strong opinion in either direction. I have not experienced a situation
> where it was needed, but I also do not think it is too much to ask.
>
> Andreas
>
> On 04/09/2015 18:34, "gem5-dev on behalf of Gutierrez, Anthony"
> <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
>
> >I like that idea. Or at least the review number, for brevity's sake.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: gem5-dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve
> >Reinhardt
> >Sent: Friday, September 04, 2015 10:32 AM
> >To: gem5 Developer List
> >Subject: [gem5-dev] including reviewboard URL in commit message?
> >
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >Just a thought: should we require commit messages to include the URL of
> >the corresponding reviewboard posting?  I think that would be useful in
> >tying the discussion to the commit.  Apologies if someone suggested this
> >before and I missed it.
> >
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