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Re: Does anyone use git-notes?

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Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 26, 2010, 13:09 UTC
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On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:09 +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:
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> I use it to store the patch comments (the part that goes after the
> "---", before the diff) along with my commits so that I have them in my
> git.git tree, not only in my mbox. This makes it also easier to redo a
> patch and keep the comment when regenerating the patch e-mail with
> format-patch. (I don't have a good solution for the cover letter yet.)
> 
> Michael

Not to stray off-topic, but I use tags for the cover letter eg: refs/tags/patches/short-description/v[N]

I hadn't thought of using git-notes for the per-patch comments, here I was with the opposite problem (A straighforward way to keep track of cover-letters, but no good way to keep track of the per-patch comments)

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  6. Tor ArntsenAug 26, 2010
  7. Michael J GruberAug 26, 2010
  8. Will PalmerAug 26, 2010
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