The documented convention allowed dropping the issue number when no issue existed. The clause looks harmless — it was meant for trivial work — but in practice it turns "there is no issue yet" into "there is no issue ever", and two branches went that way this week: the app icon, merged as #70, and the header mark, which had to be filed retroactively as #76. Both were legitimate work that the tracker never heard about, and the convention is what permitted it.
The cost is not bookkeeping. The issue is where the reasoning, the rejected alternatives, and the verification end up — the record that outlives the conversation that produced it. A branch with nothing behind it leaves that nowhere but a commit message.
Everything else about the convention is unchanged: the type prefixes, the (#N) subject, the Closes #N body line, and the point that Gitea builds the link from the commit rather than the branch name.
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