Re: [PATCH] Introduce light weight commit annotations

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 10, 2007, 23:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20070610232016.GB5761@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706091854330.4059@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin, Sat, Jun 09, 2007 19:55:10 +0200:

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> 
> With the provided script, edit-commit-annotations, you can add
> after-the-fact annotations to commits, which will be shown by
> the log if the config variable core.showannotations is set.
> 
> The annotations are tracked in a new ref, refs/annotations/commits,
> in the same fan-out style as .git/objects/??/*, only that they only
> exist in the object database now.
>

I like it too. And "notes" _is_ less to type :)

BTW, the annotations are a bit cumbersome to merge, if this implementation is to stay (and I personally would like it to) we may have to mention this little inconvenience somewhere.

And can I suggest an interface like the below?

    git notes [[--show] <commit>+] [-d|--delete <commit>+] [-e|--edit <commit>]

With the annotations file being completely removed if it is empty.