[systemd-devel] Messed up PR references on Github

[Daniel Mack]

On 06/10/2015 09:23 AM, Jan Synáček wrote:
> See https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/5. There are multiple
> references to this PR that say "<user> referenced this pull request from
> a commit in <commit>", which is hilarious, as those clearly are not
> references to this PR. Their commit messages contain the string "#5" and
> Github thinks it means a reference. I'm pretty sure this will mess up a
> lot of pull requests in the future. Is there a way to fix this?

No, unfortunately there isn't. I've already talked to GitHub support
about this, but their automatic interpretation of issue/pull references
in the # notation is not something that can be turned off.

Not sure what to do about that, but in pratice, this specific problem is
unlikely to bite us much in the future, because our issue numbers (at
least the one that are 'open') are now already higher than most stacks
are deep.


Daniel