Re: [RFC] git integrated bugtracking

On Sunday 03 June 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote:

On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 08:59:18AM -0400, Michael Poole wrote:

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Pierre Habouzit writes:

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  The other problem I see is that at the time a bug gets reported, the
user knows it's found at a commit say 'X'. But it could in fact have
been generated at a commit Y, with this pattern:

  --o---o---Y---o---o---o---o---X---o---o--> master
                     \
                      o---o---o---o---o---o--> branch B

Mainly for that reason, I would suggest having it outside the code
base's namespace: probably a different root in the same $GIT_DIR, but
I can see people wanting to have a separate $GIT_DIR.  If the database
tracks bugs by what commit(s) introduce or expose the bug -- at least
once that is known -- then you get nearly free tracking of which
branches have the bug without having to check out largely redundant
trees.

  Sure, but if it's completely out-of-tree, then cloning a repository
don't allow you to get the bug databases with it for free. I mean it'd
be great to have it somehow linked to the repository, but also I agree
that not everybody wants to clone the whole bugs databases. So maybe it
should just be in another shadow branch that annotates the devel ones.
Hmmm I definitely need to read the git-note thread...

I guess I'm the one responsible for starting that git-note thread...

For the moment, I'm busy implementing some concepts that came out of that 
discussion (refactoring tag objects and building some infrastructure needed 
to support notes without the drawbacks present in my first version).

Hopefully I'll have a proof-of-concept ready before too long. In the 
meantime I'll be happy to answer questions you might have.

Regarding the notes themselves, I thought about possibly using them as a 
link between the repo and the bug tracker, with some glue code in between 
for making the connections. I haven't thought about integrating them more 
deeply into a bug tracker, but it might be worth thinking along those 
lines, especially for the kind of system you're proposing.

Now, back to hacking...


Have fun! :)

...Johan


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