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

[Alexander Belchenko]

Karl Fogel пишет:
> Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> writes:
>> It's not quite rfc, just as the question I'd like to make bzr.devs aware of.
>>
>> 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?)

I'm aware only about one case where bug id is not pure digits: Bugs 
Everywhere uses GUID as bug id. It's a distributed bug tracking system
though, but I can imagine scenario where on top of branch with BE
bugs base running some web-interface.