[RFC] commit --fixes xxx: please, store actual bug id in addition to full URL

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:35:59AM -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> writes:
> > Currently bzr commit --fixes=xxx store full URL to the bug page.
> >
> > In QBzr we're using special regex to extract bug id back to original
> > form and then represent them in qlog view as "bug #12345".
> > (For example see http://qbzr.googlegroups.com/web/qlog.png)
> >
> > To support every new bug tracker we have to add specialized regex
> > to parse full URL.
> >
> > Maybe it makes more sense to store not only full URL to bug page (as
> > today) but in addition and original bug id? So it will be much
> > easier to extract this info?
> 
> Wow.  Is there really such a thing as a bug URL where the bug number is
> not simply the full set of contiguous digits the URL ends with?  (I
> guess I'm asking: can't one regexp actually cover them all, in
> practice?)

https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&aid=2616831&group_id=91231&atid=596416

The bug ID is '2616831'.  I've no idea what '596416' stands for.
(Horrible URLs is one more reason for avoiding sourceforge.)

Also, I don't know how bzr commit --fixes=xxx converts the xxx into a
URL, so my example may be irrelevant.

Marius Gedminas
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