RE: The merge from hell...

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:28:43PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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One thing I'd ask for: would it be possible to have more 

descriptive 

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branch names than just numbers? Even if you want to track 

it by bugzilla 

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entry number, how about calling it "bugzilla-12345" instead? 

When kernel people (not just Len) talk about a "bugzilla ID",
does that ID always come from the same namespace, or do some
subsystems have their own bugzilla?

Not only do some subsystems have their own bugtracker (ALSA for eg),
but referring to 'bugzilla' alone is meaningless, as it could
mean bugme.osdl.org, bugzilla.redhat.com, bugzilla.novell.com,
bugzilla.ubuntu.com etc etc, all of which are a prime source of
juicy kernel bugs.

Naming the branch is just eye-candy for the merge comment.
My topic branch labels in refs/my-branch never get to kernel.org, so you're
not going to see the pretty green tags on topic branches branches that I see.

I include the full-URL of the bug report in the original commit comments
for those who are interested.  I think this it the important place to put it,
and in practice I've found it to be extremely useful.

-Len