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

[James Henstridge]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
>> 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.)

The other two numbers represent the database IDs of the project and
bug tracker (both of which can be deduced from the bug number -- it
will detect if you get them wrong).

If you want to look up an SF bug by ID, you can use
"http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=NNNN", which is less
likely to break if the bug moves around.

James.