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I just recently started using the "Mark Bug" feature, and we happen to be using JIRA for most of our development issue tracking. In our current environment we have a few separate projects in JIRA whose code is all managed in the same CVSNT repository - running 2.5.04.3226; this particular senario needs that prefix to be included in the "Bug Number" textbox on commit - otherwise there would be no way of matching that Bug to the correct JIRA project. Anyway, so far things have worked great; the CVSNT audit database correctly stores the entire string in the BugId column, the commit messages are consistently correct, TortoiseCVS (from March-Hare) must be sending the Bug Number correctly too, and even CVSMailer can find the Bug comment and add the correct link to the JIRA issue in the email messages. Very cool that it works as a string so far. Does EVS treat it as a string? Has anyone encountered an issue where an alpha-numeric Bug Number has been mangled? - Matt -----Original Message----- From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of Arthur Barrett Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:55 PM To: Gerhard Fiedler; cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Bug id format? Gerhard, > is the bug id a string or a number? As Tony indicated it is stored in the RCS file as an ID, so it could be anything. However at various points in the code it is treated as an integer - so best to stick to numbers only. The 'message to bugid' stuff in the current commercial release that should be in the next CVSNT release also treats it as an integer (I think some of the patches I submitted to TortoiseCVS may also treat it as an integer). It would have been 'better' to treat it as a string all along, and the RCS format gives us that option in future - it's particularly tricky to integrate to bug systems like JIRA that use a 'prefix' on the bug number - however it does have it's advantages too (even in Jira it really is a bug number with a project prefix and treating the bug number as a bug number means it can be used cross project). Regards, Arthur _______________________________________________ cvsnt mailing list cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs Upgrade to CVS Suite for more features and support: http://march-hare.com/cvsnt/