On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 08:23:37PM -0700, 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: > > * Who the reviewer was. (It might be useful to have that more strongly > defined so you don't have to parse it out of the commit message.) > * Who approved the uplift. (OK, fine, it's a corollary of the above.) > * The bug number. (The bug just needs to be somewhere in the commit. > Does it really need to be in the message, taking up space?)
I don't think any of the three above would be a good idea, because it would mandate that you use an external tool (or a very custom hg log template) in order to make things like hg log be as useful as it is now. That seems like a complication that would get in the way of prospective contributors. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
