Patch tracking

[Amit Kucheria]

On 10 Aug 13, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Michael Hope wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria at linaro.org> wrote:
> > > So git-based workflows won't benefit from this then?
> > 
> > There's no particular dependence on any VC system.  I will be making a
> > report on each bzr commit to make sure there is a corresponding ticket
> > that tracks the upstream state.
> > 
> > At the moment you do need a backing Launchpad ticket to record the
> > state changes.  Out of interest, can git record meta data with a
> > commit, such as the upstream status, and modify that meta data after
> > the commit
> 
> Yes.  With a recent enough Git version, you can attach so called notes 
> to any commit and modify them at will:
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-notes.html

Nice!

/me learns something new today

/amit