Back-porting patches; marking the changelog message

Micha Lenk micha at lenk.info
Wed Mar 23 03:08:51 EDT 2011


Hi Christian,

Am 21.03.2011 20:47, schrieb Christian Stimming:
> Also, when cherry-picking (back-porting) single patches, I would ask everyone 
> to add a *prefix* with the original SVN revision number (as long as we're 
> still on SVN). This revision number should be written in brackets, like so:
> 
> [12345] Bla Bla ... the original commit message ...
> 
> This will clearly say that this commit already exists as r12345 on another 
> branch, and this commit is only the back-ported version of the original one.

I would like to amend this proposal to include the small letter "r" in
the SVN revision number tag, like so:

[r12345] Bla Bla ... the original commit message ...

This would help (at least me) to not confuse the revision number with
bug numbers.

Regards,
Micha


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