Please put binutils PR number in git commit log

[Jan Beulich]

On 17.02.2020 16:46, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 7:43 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 17.02.2020 16:41, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 7:31 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 17.02.2020 15:52, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>>>> Please put put binutils PR number in git commit log, like
>>>>>
>>>>> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=0aa99dcd70bce68f8efef310350a6294e1143382
>>>>>
>>>>> so that the bug report which the patch is fixing will be updated automatically.
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering how this auto-updating works. But repeating the ChangeLog
>>>> entries in the commit message is not an option imo. Or is this spelled
>>>> out as a requirement somewhere? There should be a way to achieve this
>>>> without such redundancy.
>>>>
>>>
>>> This is how git commit updates bug report today.  Until it is changed, please
>>> add PR number in git commit log.
>>
>> I'm happy to do so, but not in the shape you've pointed at as an
>> example. What exactly is being looked for by whatever grabs the
>> number out of the description?
> 
> I think "PR component/number" works in subject or the message body.

Okay, I'll try to remember adding these in some such form then.
(To date I was assuming the ChangeLog entries would be what gets
scanned.)

Jan