[RFC] Branches that fix bugs

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Jonathan Lange wrote:
> The Launchpad developer discussion list recently started talking about
> how we link our Bazaar version control data to bugs.
> 
> Right now, we have two or three ways of linking branches & revisions
> to bugs, none of which are used all the time. In particular, not many
> people are huge fans of the --fixes option, since it seems to require
> you to enter the bug fixing information at the wrong time.
> 
> In the discussion, this list of desirable traits came up, and I
> thought it would make a good starting point for a discussion on the
> Bazaar list:
> 
>  - I want to be able to link a branch to a bug offline
>  - I want to be able to say "this branch is intended to fix this bug"
> on branch creation
>  - I'd like to change my mind about bug branch links
>  - I'd like to distinguish between 'working on this bug' and 'fixes this bug'
>  - I'd like to say that a bug was fixed pretty much independently of
> when I commit.

I assume this also includes removing that declaration?

>  - On mainline branches, I would like to know which revision introduced the fix.

As in, which merged it, or which committed the fix? (I think you mean
the former.)

>  - I want to see as much of this data as possible through the bzr
> command line (again offline), ideally as part of bzr log.
> 
> Are these clear? Would you change or remove any of these? Is there
> anything you would add?
> 
> jml


Potentially:
  - I want to see what revisions were committed that were intended to be
part of this fix. (bzr log --related-to lp:33455)

  - It would be good to mark a *group* of commits as fixing a bug, since
I pretty much never implement the whole fix in a single commit.
(Generally my --fixes commit is actually the one where I go update NEWS
about having fixed the bug, which obviously has no actual code fix in
itself.)

John
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