Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TOPIC] Metadata addendum to git commit

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
>> Yes, unless you add it (using git-notes) as an annotation to the fix
>> commit, but then you're back to the (perceived) problem of sharing
>> those notes.
>>
>> Alternatively, you would have to find a different mechanism for
>> developers to insert entries into their reverse mappings from
>> post-facto/missing "Fixes:" tags.
>
> After reconsidering this, now I don't think we can rely only on Fixes
> tag.  The addendum notes are useful for other purposes, e.g. finding
> external links.  And, yet one useful thing by addendum is that you can
> mark the regression no matter whether it's already fixed or not.  With
> Fixes-tag reverse mapping, you can find only fixed regressions, but
> not open regressions.

Do you want to import the whole bug tracking system, too? ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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