On 08/09/2015 10:43 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 4:38 PM, hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> I don't really see why it has to be so verbose. Can we just make it >>> "bug 557022", or even #557022? That would also make it fit better if >>> you have a single-line commit message only. >> >> I think "X-Gentoo-Bug: 557022" also makes the job easier for tools that >> parse commit messages. > > I don't. Just the "bug " prefix should be fine for almost all > purposes, even for tools. > > Also, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648. >
There's a "standard" set of patch tags all in the style of RFC822 headers -- Signed-off-by, Acked-by, Suggested-by, etc. are all common: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches X-Gentoo-Bug is just following that example for metadata.
