
## Setting up Bugtraq

*SINCE 1.4.0*

[Bugtraq](https://github.com/mstrap/bugtraq) is a specification started by Syntevo & supported by Gitblit to establish a standard to define and parse commit messages for linkable text.

### Why do I care?

It's a portable way for your repository to have linkable issue, pull request, change-id, etc text fragments.  SmartGit/Hg and Gitblit both use the reference implementation available in the aforementioned Github project so if you configure Bugtraq for one you automatically get linked text in the other.

### How do I define the configuration?

You add a *.gitbugtraq* file to the root of your repository on the default branch.

This file is formatted like a standard Git config file.  Here are some quick examples:

    [bugtraq "googlecode"]
        url = http://code.google.com/p/yourproject/issues/detail?id=%BUGID%
        logregex = "[Ii]ssues?:?(\\s*(,|and)?\\s*#?\\d+)+\n(\\d+)"
    
    [bugtraq "gerrit"]
        url = "https://git.eclipse.org/r/#q,%BUGID%,n,z"
        logregex = "Change-Id:\\s*(I[A-Fa-f0-9]{40})"
    
    [bugtraq "jira"]
        https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/%BUGID%
        logregex = (JRA-\\d+)

    [bugtraq "github"]
        url = "https://github.com/gitblit/gitblit/pull/%BUGID%"
        loglinkregex = "(?:pull request|pull|pr)\\s*[-#]?[0-9]+"
        logregex = "\\d+"
        loglinktext = "pull request #%BUGID%"