From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Koch Subject: Best practices/conventions for tags and references in commit message Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 13:26:35 +0200 Message-ID: <201405271326.36031.thomas@koch.ro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 27 13:36:48 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WpFgV-0002iq-0M for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 27 May 2014 13:36:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751927AbaE0Lgn (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2014 07:36:43 -0400 Received: from emita2.mittwald.de ([188.94.250.252]:25711 "EHLO emita2.mittwald.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751733AbaE0Lgm (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2014 07:36:42 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 598 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 27 May 2014 07:36:42 EDT Received: from mail5102.mymxserver.com (mail5102.internal [172.16.51.2]) by emita2.mittwald.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD87B1B3A4C for ; Tue, 27 May 2014 13:29:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.mx51.mymxserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC159318CF5 for ; Tue, 27 May 2014 13:26:36 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by Mittwald Mailscanner Received: from mail5102.mymxserver.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx51.mymxserver.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TNM3S-659m0C for ; Tue, 27 May 2014 13:26:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from koch.localnet (178-82-100-66.dynamic.hispeed.ch [178.82.100.66]) (Authenticated sender: koch@comsolit.ch) by mail5102.mymxserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6417318D7B for ; Tue, 27 May 2014 13:26:36 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64; KDE/4.8.4; x86_64; ; ) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, different projects or tools have conventions to include machine parsable information in commit messages, e.g.: Closes: #42 Thanks: my mother, my wife Git-Dch: Ignore Commit-Id: 50M3R34LLYR4ND0MB1TSANDNUMB3R5 (see thread: "RFE: support change-id generation natively" for Commit-Id) ("Git-Dch: Ignore" ecludes the commit from the changelog) Are you aware of any convention or best practices for such tags that are used in more than one project? Are there more tags like these? Maybe it would also be helpful to have some more plumbing support from Git for such tags. But I've not yet thought enough about this. Best regards, Thomas Koch