Re: Find out on which branch a commit was originally made
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Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
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- Sep 19, 2010, 18:30 UTC
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lördagen den 18 september 2010 17.26.08 skrev Stefan Haller:
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> Ævar Arnfjör? Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote: > > You want to do X, and you think Y is the best way of doing so. > > > > Instead of asking about X, you ask about Y. > > Erm, not really; I explicitly mentioned Y as "a possible workaround" > only. Anyway... > > > Why do your co-workers think this is essential to the point that they > > can't get by without it? What problem are they trying to solve? > > It's a common situation that you want to know why a certain piece of > code is written the way it is. So you blame it, you eventually end up > at a certain interesting changeset, and hopefully the commit message > tells you enough about why the change was made. If it doesn't, then it > can help a lot to know a bit more about the context of the change, i.e. > what topic it was part of.
What most people do (I think) is to include a reference to a ticket in a issue tracker. JGit/EGit adds Bug:-line in the footer. Others add the ticket number in the Subject. This much informative than a branch name. It also allows you to fix unrelated bugs on your branch.
-- robin