Phabric IDs / URLs in commits

[Florent Thoumie]

I don't know the ins and outs of arcanist but at Facebook we use 'arc
amend' to update the local commit message with whatever is in phabricator.
This includes the name of the reviewer.

Florent


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 9:38 AM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Friday, July 11, 2014 12:16:26 pm John Baldwin wrote:
> > Author: jhb
> > Date: Fri Jul 11 16:16:26 2014
> > New Revision: 268531
> > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/268531
> >
> > Log:
> >   Fix some edge cases with rewinddir():
> >   - In the unionfs case, opendir() and fdopendir() read the directory's
> full
> >     contents and cache it.  This cache is not refreshed when rewinddir()
> is
> >     called, so rewinddir() will not notice updates to a directory.  Fix
> this
> >     by splitting the code to fetch a directory's contents out of
> >     __opendir_common() into a new _filldir() function and call this from
> >     rewinddir() when operating on a unionfs directory.
> >   - If rewinddir() is called on a directory opened with fdopendir()
> before
> >     any directory entries are fetched, rewinddir() will not adjust the
> seek
> >     location of the backing file descriptor.  If the file descriptor
> passed
> >     to fdopendir() had a non-zero offset, the rewinddir() will not
> rewind to
> >     the beginning.  Fix this by always seeking back to 0 in rewinddir().
> >     This means the dd_rewind hack can also be removed.
> >
> >   While here, add missing locking to rewinddir().
> >
> >   CR:                 https://phabric.freebsd.org/D312
> >   Reviewed by:        jilles
> >   MFC after:  1 week
>
> Just picking my own commit here as a sample case.
>
> I think we should be annotating commits with phabricator code reviews in
> some
> way when a change has gone through that review.  It is very useful to get
> back
> to the review details from the commit log message in svnweb, etc.
>
> I can see a number of different ways to do this, but I do think it would be
> nice to pick a consistent way to do it.
>
> Things to consider:
>
> 1) The tag ("CR:" is what I used above).  I don't care, just pick one.  I
>    chose CR since Warner used it previously.  Whatever we decide, we should
>    add it to the template.
>
> 2) ID vs full URL.  For PRs we just list the bug ID and not the full URL
>    (same for Coverity).  I would be fine with that so long as someone hacks
>    up svnweb to convert the IDs into links (the way it handles PR bug
>    numbers).  OTOH, if you use the full URL you get that for free in
> svnweb,
>    and you also get it in mail clients, etc.  It helps that the URL isn't
> but
>    so long.
>
> This is more of a pie-in-the-sky, but it would be _really_ nice if arcanist
> were hacked up to support our local commit template and would auto populate
> the 'Reviewed by' and 'CR' (or whatever it ends up being called) fields so
> one
> could use 'arc commit'.
>
> So what do folks prefer for 1) and 2)?
>
> --
> John Baldwin
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Florent