From: Richard C. <ri...@cy...> - 2004-02-02 15:45:50
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From: "Brian G. Peterson" <br...@br...> > Requested Behavior: > When Bugzilla is integrated to CVS, a developer will check in code that > fixes/modifies a bug with a commit comment like: > Bug 14 > on a single line in thier commit comments. (other legal values are 'bug > 14' 'Bug#14' 'bug# 14', etc) > > Statcvs, when parsing the commit log to HTML, would replace instances of > the pattern above with a HREF like: > http://www.myserver.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14 This is a nice idea and I can see how it could be useful. But my impression is that few projects refer consistently to a bug tracking app in the commit comments, and some who do use different conventions, like "issue #14" or just "#14". I fear that this feature would be difficult to explain in the manual and would frustrate users who happen to use a different convention. I think that this would be better solved by post-processing the HTML files generated by StatCvs. A few (one?) lines of Perl should do the job and would be more easily adapted to different conventions and uses. Like, for example, linking to both a bug tracker ("bug #123") and RFE tracker ("RFE #456"), like at SourceForge. I'd be happy to host or provide a link to such a script at the StatCvs homepage. Best regards, Richard |