> -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Bash [mailto:bash@genarts.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 8:54 > To: Jeff King > Cc: git@vger.kernel.org; Rice, James M CIV NSWCDD, K73 > Subject: Re: Tracking changes in git with a change number.... > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jeff King" > > Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 1:50:08 AM > > Subject: Re: Tracking changes in git with a change number.... > > > > > Restating the problem. I wish for our developers to be able to > > > reference multiple commits with one number, and then find those > > > commits via that number. And I don't mind scripting to accomplish > > > this. I know, that CR # can be put in the commit message, then I > can > > > grep and parse the log, that is the hard way. > > > > There are two ways to approach this: tell the CM tool about some git > > commits, or tell some git commits about the CR number. > > > > ... snip ... > > > > If you want to do the reverse and tell git about CR numbers, then I > > don't think you have much option besides putting them in the commit > > message. Which means you'll need to grep to get them out. You can do > > something like: > > > > $ git log --grep='CR#' --pretty=format: --name-only > > To add to what Jeff said, in our office we automate the 'grep' step > using a git post-receive hook in our central/canonical repo. We happen > to be using Trac for issue tracking, so the post-receive hook > enumerates the new commit ids, calls Trac to parse the commit messages, > and Trac then updates the appropriate tickets. But I've seen the same > done with many different issue trackers. > > Thanks, > Stephen Unfortunately our issue tracker is used by multiple organizations, is in windows and would be a pain to integrate in that manner, if it can be done at all. That being said, Jeff's answer was what I was looking for! Thanks to all of you for your help! Thanks, James.