Re: [RFC] git integrated bugtracking

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Jun 3, 2007, 15:44 UTC
Message-ID: <vpq1wgtnith.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20070603151921.GB30347@artemis>

Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:

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>   Yeah, now that I read that thread, well yeah, I think notes are a hell
> of a good concept for my ideas. I mean, a bug report would be basically
> a collection of notes:
>   * the bug has been found at this commit ;
>   * the bug has been not-found at this commit ;
>   * this commit is a fix for that bug ;

That's my feeling too. "Commiting" bug information in the tree is only half of a good idea. You want to be able to say, after the fact, "This commit had bug XYZ". OTOH, the idea (followed by bugs everywhere) that merging a branch would automatically close bugs fixed by this branch is a really cool thing.

The kind of information you're mentionning above can be a great starting point for "bisect". I can even imagine a kind of distributed bisect, where several users could give their "bad commits" for the same bug.

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Matthieu