RFR: Addition of a causes link type [v7]

[Alexey Ivanov]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 09:57:04 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Why not? I assume that one thing you want to capture is when backporting. So if B is broken, you definitely would want to know that it caused undesired behavior that was fixed by C. Or am I mistaken?

I agree. The reason for backout is that the fix was broken, so C was caused by B.

When backporting, B and C can be skipped, therefore a ‘causes’ link from A to D makes sense to me.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/guide/pull/139#issuecomment-2607201601