[ovs-dev] [PATCH] CONTRIBUTING: Add example GitHub-PR header.

Russell Bryant russell at ovn.org
Tue Jan 5 14:25:16 UTC 2016


On 01/04/2016 07:15 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 04:04:18PM -0500, Russell Bryant wrote:
>> I have used a GitHub-PR header to refer to the GitHub pull request where
>> a patch originated in a couple of cases.  This results in the commit
>> getting automatically linked back to the pull request on github.
>> Document this as a format that can be used to refer to pull requests.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org>
> 
> The main reason that VMware-BZ and ONF-JIRA are just numbers is that
> these are private databases.  For public databases I like to give a URL,
> because that makes it trivial for people to view it, e.g.
>         Submitted-at: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/pull/100
> in this case.  (Also that form means we don't have to invent a new format
> if someone submits a patch somewhere else off-list.)
> 

Submitted-at works for me.  I just wanted to have something agreed upon
and documented.  I'll update this patch with the new header.  Thanks!

-- 
Russell Bryant



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