On 17.07.2013 15:33, John Keeping wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:03:14PM +0200, Marc Strapetz wrote: >> I'm looking for a specification or guidelines on how a Git client should >> integrate with bug tracking systems. For SVN, one can use >> bugtraq-properties [1] to specify e.g. the issue tracker URL or how to >> parse the bug ID from a commit message. AFAIU, there is nothing >> comparable for Git [2]? If that's actually the case, is someone >> interested in working out a similar specification for Git? >> >> [1] http://code.google.com/p/tortoisesvn/source/browse/tags/version_1.2.0/doc/issuetrackers.txt >> >> [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17545548 > > The Git way to record the issue ID as a footer in the commit message. > See for example [1]. Although I'm not aware of any standard for naming > this footer. > > In terms of recording the URL and other data, I think you'd want a > dotfile in the repository (perhaps .bugzilla). This shoudld probably be > in the gitconfig format, like .gitmodules. > > I think "all" it needs is to draw up a spec for the names of keys and > format of their values, along with the format of footer(s) identifying > issues associated with a commit and to persuade UI developers to support > it... ;-) Finally, I've created a minimal spec which is sufficient to parse and display issue IDs: https://github.com/mstrap/bugtraq/blob/master/specification.txt I'd appreciate comments and pull requests. -Marc -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html