Re: The fixes-bug field

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:30:11 -0500
> From: "Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
> > > TL;DR: Possible, but a serious PITA.  If this is just an It Would Be Nice
> > > rather than being key to an established workflow I'd rather not go there.
> > 
> > The "fixes" info is important.  Not just "would be nice".
> > Maybe there are other ways to preserve it (e.g. "bzr log", collect the
> > "Fixes" notes and then pass them to "git notes" somehow).
> > 
> > Which format is used to keep the "fixes" info in the Git repository is
> > not terribly important, but the info should appear in the "git
> > log" output.
> 
> OK, I'll come up with something.

Thanks.

I think we should decide on how to store this info and how to report
the fixed bugs once we switch to git, before we decide on how to
convert this data from bzr, and whether or not this justifies a new
conversion from scratch rather than reuse of the existing mirror.