[RFC] Branches that fix bugs

[Vincent Ladeuil]

>>>>> "jam" == John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

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

+1

Most of the time, I use an integration branch for submissions
into which I merge the bu fixing branch. When I commit after that
merge, I specify --fixes, so I know that the commit with the
--fixes tag will show me a complete diff of the fix (hopefully).

        Vincent