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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