On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Daniel Friesen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:45:14 -0800, Nischay Nahata <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> This is a friendly reminder to everyone about the preferred way to >>> link to bugs in your commit messages. When you include them as >>> part of the footer, they are indexed and are thus searchable. For >>> example: >>> >>> """ >>> Fixing some weird bug >>> >>> More explanation >>> Blah blah blah. >>> >>> Bug: 1234 >>> Change-Id: Ia90..... >>> """ >>> >>> So when you do this, you're able to search for "bug:1234" via Gerrit. >>> By doing this, you're also removing it from the first line (which was >>> our old habit, mostly from SVN days), providing you more space to >>> be descriptive in that first line. >>> >>> >> I also prefer it in the header. The bug report is the best description :) >> >> Is it not possible for Gerrit to search if its in the header? or make it >> so > > > +1 > > Tools should be coded around people. Not the other way around. >
No, Gerrit cannot detect these in the header. Also, this is pretty standard Git-fu to include this sort of metadata in the footer of the commit. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
