On 11/04/13 15:23, Gregory Szorc wrote: > Mercurial and Git both support the ability to attach arbitrary key-value > string data to commits. There is an abundance of awesomeness that could > be realized if we started storing [machine readable] information inside > our commits (not inside the commit messages). Here are some examples:
Given that we have a reference to the bug we could put most of this information in bugzilla and make better cross-reference tools. The problem with putting things into the commit is that they can't easily be updated. While we're at it we could automate the process of adding the commit/backout comments in bugs. Anthony _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform