Re: better changeset tracking

From: Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 22:59:39 +0000
Subject: Re: better changeset tracking
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hi folks, On Monday 28 May 2007 17:56:54 Wez Furlong wrote: > I think we could do with investing a little bit of time into finding a > way to automatically review commits to see if they have been merged to > all relevant branches. For this to be viable, we should probably > adopt the practice of explicitly referencing a bug number in all > commits (could be enforced by the commit hook); we can then analyze > the commit messages to make sure that commits referencing a particular > bug number have a corresponding set of commits in the branches, and > vice versa. this would be of immense, immense help to 3rd party distributors of php, such as debian (and redhat, and others, i'm sure). currently it's a rather trying experience to go digging through commit histories for something that was fixed "in the latest cvs snapshot" at some point in time. i think i posted a feature request along these lines at some time in the past... :) sean

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