Re: Git counterpart to SVN bugtraq properties?

From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date: Jul 17, 2013, 13:33 UTC
Message-ID: <20130717133357.GB2337@serenity.lan>
In-Reply-To: <51E69612.6020201@syntevo.com>

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:03:14PM +0200, Marc Strapetz wrote:

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> I'm looking for a specification or guidelines on how a Git client should
> integrate with bug tracking systems. For SVN, one can use
> bugtraq-properties [1] to specify e.g. the issue tracker URL or how to
> parse the bug ID from a commit message. AFAIU, there is nothing
> comparable for Git [2]? If that's actually the case, is someone
> interested in working out a similar specification for Git?
> 
> [1] http://code.google.com/p/tortoisesvn/source/browse/tags/version_1.2.0/doc/issuetrackers.txt
> 
> [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17545548

The Git way to record the issue ID as a footer in the commit message. See for example [1]. Although I'm not aware of any standard for naming this footer.

In terms of recording the URL and other data, I think you'd want a dotfile in the repository (perhaps .bugzilla). This shoudld probably be in the gitconfig format, like .gitmodules.

I think "all" it needs is to draw up a spec for the names of keys and format of their values, along with the format of footer(s) identifying issues associated with a commit and to persuade UI developers to support it... ;-)

[1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4a88f73f14f6d6c94616538427e1235a6d0a5885