Re: bugtraq:logrex documentation

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Simon Large
<simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Reading through our docs on issue tracking I realise that I don't
> really understand the description of the logregex setting. What I
> think it is trying to say is that if you always enter issues in a
> fixed format, eg. "Issue #123, Issue #124" then you can get away with
> a single line regex. If you want a more natural language, eg. "Issues
> #123, #46 and #48" then you need the first regex to extract the entire
> issues string, and a second to extract the bug IDs from the string the
> the first regex extracted. Is that correct?

I would change the docs to always recommend the two-line regex. It's
much easier to write the regex that way.
The single-line regex is only there because some issuetrackers do use
those (e.g., trac). But in that case, the users would have to copy the
regex string from the issuetracker-docs anyway.

Stefan

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