[asterisk-dev] Tagging commits with issue numbers

[Shaun Ruffell]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:01:16AM -0500, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Sunday 28 August 2011 05:32:01 Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:31:58AM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
> > > Related wiki page which may need some updating:
> > > 
> > > https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Commit+Messages
> > 
> > I'm not sure I'm happy with it:
> > 
> > "Signed-off-by" is just a header git easily adds (git commit -s). It
> > normally implies the identity of the author of the patch (regardless of
> > who actually commited it). Which makes it the exact equivalent of that
> > author from that complex-to-parse "Patches" field.
> 
> Irrelevant.  We're not using Git (yet).  If you're finding fundamental
> incompatibilities between your own adaptation and our version control
> system, that is an issue that you need to work out locally, not place upon
> the project to solve.

Just focusing on the ease with which commit messages are parsed and
ignoring the git example, what would your response to his statement
be?

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