Is there a convention for referring to a previous commit in a git commit message?
Example commit message:
Fixed bug such and such introduced in a1b2c3e4
In particular, is there a convention that github.com will understand, and convert to a link?
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Yup – GitHub will pick up references to SHAs and users/repos patterns using the GitHub Flavored Markdown
Specifically about linking to commits: