Mainly to improve workflow outside of integrated review tool. Phabricator[1] or GitHub[2] already can do it but most ports/ submissions are done via Bugzilla. An example syntax: PR: fixes 123456 PR: resolves 123456 PR: closes 123456 PR: 123456 (fix) PR: 123456 (close) PR: 123456 (resolve) [1] https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/diffusion_autoclose/ [2] https://help.github.com/articles/closing-issues-via-commit-messages/
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 205966 ***