Re: Template for commit messages

On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 01:55:23PM +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 01/02/16 13:36, Andres Freund wrote:
> >On 2016-01-28 06:03:02 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>    Reported-by:
> >>    Bug:
> >>    Author:
> >>    Reviewed-by:
> >>    Tested-by:
> >>    Backpatch-through:
> >
> >I personally, and I realize that I'm likely alone on that, would really
> >like to see references to relevant threads. A year after a commit or
> >such it often starts to get hard to know which threads a commit was
> >about.  Often it's easy enough if it's about a single feature, but
> >bugfixes often originate in threads that have no directly corresponding
> >thread. And often the commit happens a while after there's been activity
> >in a thread.  I spent days searching what thread "per discussion" in
> >commit messages refers to.
> 
> +1. I also quite often look at a commit message, and then hunt the "per
> discussion". A message-id would save some time there.

+1