On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 at 11:51 Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 10:43 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
If people don't like that idea the appending works for me if it isn't difficult for Senthil.
but I'd still prefer this to not having the modified version at all.
It's not difficult and I am open to these suggestions. I hope we can settle upon something that will serve us well in utility value.
If many folks are still apprehensive, not changing is fine with me. It's will be a slight inconvenience with historical commit messages.
OK, executive decision: let's test a rewrite but only for things that match the regex at the beginning of the commit message (using Senthil's long list of possible formats so we get "bpo-NNNN" and not "Issue bpo-NNNN"). That won't have any false-positives and still gets us consistent issue naming for the whole repo (at least in the commit summary line, but that will also act as a scope to the commit that any ambiguous "#NNNN" numbers apply to bpo). If this test doesn't lead to people being happy we will abandon the idea of any history rewriting for tomorrow.