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Re: The merge from hell...

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DJDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Date
Feb 3, 2006, 16:21 UTC
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On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:28:43PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
 > > One thing I'd ask for: would it be possible to have more descriptive 
 > > branch names than just numbers? Even if you want to track it by bugzilla 
 > > entry number, how about calling it "bugzilla-12345" instead? 
 > 
 > When kernel people (not just Len) talk about a "bugzilla ID",
 > does that ID always come from the same namespace, or do some
 > subsystems have their own bugzilla?

Not only do some subsystems have their own bugtracker (ALSA for eg), but referring to 'bugzilla' alone is meaningless, as it could mean bugme.osdl.org, bugzilla.redhat.com, bugzilla.novell.com, bugzilla.ubuntu.com etc etc, all of which are a prime source of juicy kernel bugs.

		Dave
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Message 5 of 5 in “RE: The merge from hell...”
  1. Brown, LenFeb 3, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsFeb 3, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 3, 2006
  4. get_sha1_1: allow octopus^12 to be properly parsed.Junio C Hamano, Feb 3, 2006
  5. Dave JonesFeb 3, 2006

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