"Daniel Friesen" <[email protected]> wrote:

>>> 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.

*Argl* :-)  May I repeat my question from
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/66432:

| Is there another software project that uses the summary line
| in a similar way to MediaWiki?

Tim


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