Manipulating RT tickets using commits
The following instructions were written for cvs but also work for Subversion.
To: krbdev@mit.edu Subject: Important: handling commit interactions with bug database Message-Id: <20020917204852.4AEFE151FEF@industrial-algebra.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:48:52 -0400 (EDT) From: hartmans@MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Hi. I've just deployed the integration between the RT bug tracking system and our CVS repository.
Per previous discussion, we're moving to a model where any non-trivial functionality change needs to be accompanied by a ticket open in the bug database. This will allow us to generate better release notes. To accomplish this we have created a syntax for manipulating tickets along with commits. If you are someone who has commit access but is not at MIT your commits MUST create or update a ticket.
To manipulate tickets you add some header lines to the top of your log message. The lines can be of the form header: value or rt-header: value. I'll show them without the rt-prefix.
Updating a ticket
To update a ticket, you include a ticket: or rt-ticket: line in your log. For example:
ticket: 1164 Return errno not retval when getpeername fails.
By default when you update a ticket:
- the ticket is assigned to you
- The ticket is closed
If these defaults are not appropriate for your action you can override them; see below.
Creating a ticket
You can also create a ticket at the same time as you commit. All you have to do is use new instead of a ticket number in a ticket line. However you almost certainly want to at least set the subject.
ticket: new subject: Add AES support Add an implementation of AES to libk5crypto.
In addition to closing the ticket and marking you as the owner of a ticket, creating a new ticket makes you the requester of the ticket.
Other Things to Change
The following additional commands are supported:
- subject: changes the subject of ticket
- status: [open|resolved|new|stalled]
- owner: [username|nobody]
- cc: [email address]
- Component: change component of ticket [krb5-libs etc]
- Version_Reported:
- Target_Version:
- Tags: [enhancement|nochange|noresource|pullup]
You could set version_fixed, but it is wrong to do so.
Also, note that you can update multiple tickets in one log message; updates apply to the most recent ticket: command.