On 2013-08-13 at 14:20:59 +0200, Simon Marlow wrote: [...]
I have updated http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions/Git to mention this, but it could probably do with more complete docs since the standard Trac docs don't take into account our local settings.
Herbert, could you expand that please?
I've just expanded that section; please review I've added a reference to [1] (even though almost all commit messages I've seen already follow that convention anyway). I refrained from mentioning some of the additional syntax variants recognized by the commit message parser (such as "closes issue 1234" as alternative for "closes #1234") as it makes grepping through commit messages more difficult. While at it, I added "resolve{,s,ed}" to the list of verbs to mimic GitHub's supported keywords[2]. Btw, if this is desired, we could make a commit add a ticket comment as soon as the respective ticket-number occurs (i.e. w/o any preceding verb). This would effectively make Trac recognize a subset of GitHub's syntax. I could implement this together with the mergefix-verb feature you proposed. [1]: http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html [2]: https://help.github.com/articles/closing-issues-via-commit-messages Cheers, hvr