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Re: Commit annotations (was:: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?)

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Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date
Jun 3, 2008, 23:59 UTC
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On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > By the way, what is status of git-notes / commit annotations?  Did it
> > got abandoned, on hiatus, or what?
> 
> You probably meant to Cc: me, and Linus, right?
> 
> I all but abandoned it.  It works, but I do not need it, and kind of 
> waited for the guy who wanted them to chime in, so that I did not waste my 
> time in vain.
> 
> IIRC it was Johan Herland, but I could be wrong.

Yes, I made the first (severely misguided) implementations [1][2] which prompted Dscho to create an alternative implementation [3]. Although Dscho's design was certainly more Git-esque than mine (keeping the notes in a (pseudo)branch instead of creating a totally separate infrastructure for note storage), at some point his efforts stalled (due to a combination of scalability problems and/or lack of interest, IIRC).

I was happy to see some of this work recently resumed by Geoffrey Irving [4].

(Side note: It is funny how Geoffrey's patch-id cache can be seen as yet another instance of the reverse-mapping softref mechanism I proposed as part of the first git-notes implementation [5])

>From the initial interest in git-notes, and the sporadic requests that have

been posted since its first mention, it seems that git-notes would be a useful feature for many Git users. However, neither me nor Dscho have the time/interest to keep pushing it. Maybe it's time for someone else to pick up the torch?

Have fun! :)
...Johan

[1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/46770/focus=48540 [2]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/49052 [3]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/52598 [4]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/83484 [5]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/49052/focus=49592

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Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
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  1. Jakub NarebskiJun 3, 2008
  2. Linus TorvaldsJun 3, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoJun 3, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 3, 2008
  5. Johannes SchindelinJun 3, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 3, 2008
  7. Johannes SchindelinJun 3, 2008
  8. SZEDER GáborJun 3, 2008
  9. Junio C HamanoJun 3, 2008
  10. SZEDER GáborJun 3, 2008
  11. Junio C HamanoJun 3, 2008
  12. SZEDER GáborJun 3, 2008
  13. Jeff KingJun 4, 2008
  14. Junio C HamanoJun 4, 2008
  15. Linus TorvaldsJun 3, 2008
  16. Miklos VajnaJun 3, 2008
  17. Junio C HamanoJun 4, 2008
  18. Junio C HamanoJun 3, 2008
  19. Jakub NarebskiJun 3, 2008
  20. Junio C HamanoJun 3, 2008
  21. Jakub NarebskiJun 3, 2008
  22. Junio C HamanoJun 3, 2008
  23. Linus TorvaldsJun 3, 2008
  24. Commit annotations (was:: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?)Jakub Narebski, Jun 3, 2008
  25. Johannes SchindelinJun 3, 2008
  26. Johan HerlandJun 3, 2008
  27. Daniel VilleneuveJun 3, 2008
  28. Matthieu MoyJun 3, 2008
  29. Jakub NarebskiJun 3, 2008
  30. Matthieu MoyJun 3, 2008

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