Modifying commit messages

Hello,

Currently we track bug fixes by including a reference number within the
commit message, I'm sure this is common practice.

However we would also like to keep track of the revision where bugs were
introduced. As a use case, consider a project with many branches and
tags, now imagine that a bug is discovered to have been introduced at an
early stage of the project e.g. revision 100. All branches taken after
revision 100 will potentially have the bug all branches taken prior to
revision 100 will not. The problem here is that as the number of bugs
and branches increase the job of answering the question "does bug x
appear in branch y?" becomes ever more difficult.

As a possible solution we are considering modifying commit messages to
indicate the bugs introduced in each revision. It should then be
possible to answer the above question with a simple svn log + grep.

I would be interested to hear any feedback the community has on this.
Jonathan Oulds
Received on 2011-01-13 17:46:40 CET