[Ksummit-discuss] [TOPIC] Metadata addendum to git commit

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 22 May 2014 09:49:44 +0200,
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> >> Yes, unless you add it (using git-notes) as an annotation to the fix
> >> commit, but then you're back to the (perceived) problem of sharing
> >> those notes.
> >>
> >> Alternatively, you would have to find a different mechanism for
> >> developers to insert entries into their reverse mappings from
> >> post-facto/missing "Fixes:" tags.
> >
> > After reconsidering this, now I don't think we can rely only on Fixes
> > tag.  The addendum notes are useful for other purposes, e.g. finding
> > external links.  And, yet one useful thing by addendum is that you can
> > mark the regression no matter whether it's already fixed or not.  With
> > Fixes-tag reverse mapping, you can find only fixed regressions, but
> > not open regressions.
> 
> Do you want to import the whole bug tracking system, too? ;-)

Oh no.  But just adding a regression tag to a commit would be no hard
work for maintainers, I suppose.


Takashi