Re: [boost] [git] automatic ticket closing

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] automatic ticket closing
From: Daniel James (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-04 18:33:55

On 4 December 2013 23:26, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 4 December 2013 22:40, Gavin Lambert <gavinl_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> On 5/12/2013 10:57, Quoth Joaquin M Lopez Munoz:
>>
>>> Trac has this nice feature by which one can close a ticket merely
>>> by indicating its #number in the associated fix commit message. Is there
>>> anything similar for Git? Plans to add it to our Trac environment?
>>
>>
>> I don't know about Trac, but with GitHub-based issues you can reference an
>> issue by #number or commit via SHA and it will put the appropriate links in
>> on both ends automagically.  You can also use "closes #number" or "fixes
>> #number" or a few other variations to automatically close the issue when the
>> commit lands.
>
> https://help.github.com/articles/closing-issues-via-commit-messages

I think the plan is to continue using trac issues for the immediate
future. There is a git plugin available for it, so I assume we can
continue using comments as before once that's set up.