Re: Git transition checklist

[Rüdiger Sonderfeld]

On Wednesday 08 January 2014 22:19:52 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 15:02:16 -0500
> > From: "Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > 
> > > What is the equivalent of bzr commit --fixes?
> > 
> > There isn't one.  If you want to associate a bug with a commit you'll
> > have to do it manually in the commit comment.
> 
> It would be nice to have something similar to --fixes, so that the bug
> report is mentioned in the commit's metadata in some canonical format,
> which will then make it easy to look for that.

This could be handled by git-notes(1).

E.g.,

  git commit ...
  git notes add -m 'Fixes: #16389'

Would add a note (metadata) to the last commit.  It is shown in `git log' or 
the current note can be displayed using `git notes show'.

Regards,
Rüdiger