what if tracker url changes?

[Frits Jalvingh]

Stephan,

Thanks, that's exactly what I mean.

Frits

On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 14:03 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 
> IIUC His suggestion is 3-fold:
> 1- structure the name into a "tracker name" and "bug id".
>    Currently, this requires parsing the URL in an ad-hoc way.
> 2- provide an indirection so that the tracker's URL can change
>    over time.  This could also be added to the current scheme via
>    a remapping table, as you suggest.
> 3- "in tree" storage of the indirection table so it can be versioned and
>    so it doesn't require external configuration.
> 
> The fact that it works without any local configuration is a major
> advantage.  That would be the main advantage: currently all Emacs
> contributors who want to commit using the --fixes argument first need to
> figure out how to configure their bazaar.conf for it.
> 
> Another advantage to me is: "bzr log" can display bug numbers in a much
> more legible way (thanks to point #1) since you don't have to skip the
> "http://foo.bar.baz/totot/titi" to get at the bug number.  Displaying it
> as a URL also has its advantages, as well, but right now Bzr can't offer
> the choice.
> 
> 
>         Stefan
>