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Please put binutils PR number in git commit log

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Mon Feb 17 15:47:00 GMT 2020 
On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 7:43 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>
> On 17.02.2020 16:41, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 7:31 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 17.02.2020 15:52, H.J. Lu wrote:
> >>> Please put put binutils PR number in git commit log, like
> >>>
> >>> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=0aa99dcd70bce68f8efef310350a6294e1143382
> >>>
> >>> so that the bug report which the patch is fixing will be updated automatically.
> >>
> >> I was wondering how this auto-updating works. But repeating the ChangeLog
> >> entries in the commit message is not an option imo. Or is this spelled
> >> out as a requirement somewhere? There should be a way to achieve this
> >> without such redundancy.
> >>
> >
> > This is how git commit updates bug report today.  Until it is changed, please
> > add PR number in git commit log.
>
> I'm happy to do so, but not in the shape you've pointed at as an
> example. What exactly is being looked for by whatever grabs the
> number out of the description?

I think "PR component/number" works in subject or the message body.

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H.J.
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