Re: RFE: support change-id generation natively

From: Jeremy Rosen <jeremy.rosen@openwide.fr>
Date: Oct 21, 2013, 14:51 UTC
Message-ID: <2127507934.9293293.1382367063640.JavaMail.root@openwide.fr>
In-Reply-To: <1382366880.8925.36578285.27469B22@webmail.messagingengine.com>

for those of us that are not using gerrit...

what is a change-id (semantically, I got from your mail that it is some sort of unit id set at commit time) and in what way is it different from the commit-id ?

Cordialement

Jérémy Rosen +33 (0)1 42 68 28 04

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> Hello Git Community,
> 
> TL;DR:
> It would be a really nice enhancement if the commit command natively
> supported _optionally_ injecting a "Change-Id: I000..." footer in the
> last paragraph of the commit message template and then substituting
> the
> "I000..." value, on commit, with a generated value _without_ having
> to
> rely on a per-repository, native hook or a global hook that affects
> every local repository.
> 
> Full Request:
> Gerrit has established the change-id footer as a prominent and
> wide-spread collaboration identifier.  For those contributing new
> patches to a Gerrit server, it is required to either use EGit/JGit
> (Eclipse) to generate commits [1] OR to use a commit hook script with
> native git to insert a change-id footer during the commit process
> [2].
> This per-repository hook script requirement is an obstacle.  These
> communities would be better served and it would lower the
> contribution
> barrier for many open source projects if native git supported
> change-id
> generation & injection.
> 
> I acknowledge that not everyone uses nor wants to use Gerrit and the
> change-id footer.  That is fine, but it would be a _tremendous_
> usability improvement for those contributing to open source projects
> (myself included) if something like a "--change-id" flag  was
> implemented and maybe even a config setting to always generate a
> change-id on commit (EGit currently supports this as
> "gerrit.createchangeid=true").
> 
> Sadly, my C skills are lacking as I live mostly in the world of
> managed
> code, but I'd be very happy to cheer for a change-id champion; I
> suspect
> there are some out there who might rally to this cause.
> 
> Thanks for your consideration.
> James Moger
> gitblit.com
> 
> [1]
> https://git.eclipse.org/c/jgit/jgit.git/tree/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/api/CommitCommand.java?h=stable-3.1#n288
> [2]
> http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.0/cmd-hook-commit-msg.html
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