Re: [boost] [git] automatic ticket closing

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Daniel James wrote:

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On 4 December 2013 22:40, Gavin Lambert wrote:

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On 5/12/2013 10:57, Quoth Joaquin M Lopez Munoz:

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Trac has this nice feature by which one can close a ticket merely by indicating its #number in the associated fix commit message. Is

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anything similar for Git? Plans to add it to our Trac environment?

I don't know about Trac, but with GitHub-based issues you can reference an issue by #number or commit via SHA and it will put the appropriate

On 4 December 2013 23:26, Mateusz Loskot wrote: there links in

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on both ends automagically. You can also use "closes #number" or "fixes #number" or a few other variations to automatically close the issue when the commit lands.

https://help.github.com/articles/closing-issues-via-commit-messages

I think the plan is to continue using trac issues for the immediate future. There is a git plugin available for it, so I assume we can continue using comments as before once that's set up.

That was definitely the plan. But I'm using the GitHub issues system to process Admin requests for write permissions, and that is altering my perceptions. I think the same thing is happening as happened with Git itself. You can speculate about whether A is better than B all you want, but actually using something alters your perspective. If I had to put my finger on what is was in the case of the issues lists, I would say the responsiveness of the GitHub issue tracker. But whatever it is, something is making me want to abandon the old trac issue tracker ASAP. --Beman