On Wed February 27 2008 3:14:13 am Guido Günther wrote: > Hi John, > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:34:53PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > It would be nice for git-dch to have an option to include the full > > commit message in the changelog. It would of course have to re-wrap > > and indent paragraphs a bit. That way, I could say Closes: #nnnnnn in > > the commit message for future reference and also have it appear in the > > changelog -- sort of debcommit in reverse. > > Yes, this is on my TODO list since quiet some time. Along these lines I > intend to introduce some more meta tags like: > > Closes: #bugnumer > Thanks: ... > > to help git-dch format the changelog.
FWIW, you may be interested to look at: http://git.complete.org/commithooks I have in there a git-deb-commit script that is intended to be called from post-receive. It will look for things like "Closes: #xxxxxx" or "fixes deb#xxxxxx". When it sees that, it will tag a bug pending and send a commit message to the BTS. It will also look for "refs deb#xxxxxx", and when it sees that, it will simply send a commit message to the BTS but not tag it pending. I find this helpful to keep people informed of the status of projects without necessarily having to release new versions right away. I really like the idea of being able to use the same messages with git-dch. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417791 for an example. I hope to get that packaged up for Debian soonish. -- John
