At worst you could just use the issue number for the PR. But I think all
non-trivial commits _should_ have an issue associated. For really tiny
commits we could allow "no issue" or '#0' in the message. Just so long as
the author is being explicit, I think that is OK.


On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Scott Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote:

> Maybe I'm misunderstanding? This would require that all commits be
> specifically associated with an issue. I don't have actual stats, but
> briefly skimming recent commits and looking at the issue tracker, a lot of
> commits can't be reasonably associated with an issue. This requirement
> would either force people to create fake issues for each commit, or to
> reference tangentially-related or overly-broad issues in commit messages,
> neither of which is very useful.
>
> Referencing any conversation that leads to or influences a commit is a
> good idea, but something this inflexible doesn't seem right.
>
> My 1.5ยข.
>
>
> On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Nick Cameron wrote:
>
>  How would people feel about a requirement for all commit messages to have
>> an issue number in them? And could we make bors enforce that?
>>
>> The reason is that GitHub is very bad at being able to trace back a commit
>> to the issue it fixes (sometimes it manages, but not always). Not being
>> able to find the discussion around a commit is extremely annoying.
>>
>> Cheers, Nick
>>
>>
> --
> Scott Lawrence
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