From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:19:30 GMT
Subject: Re: cvs revision number -> git commit name?
Message-ID: <201001272319.30134.johan@herland.net>
In-Reply-To: <hbf.20100127jjbx@bombur.uio.no>

On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> Johan Herland writes:
> > You could consider adding the CVS revision numbers as notes (see "git
> > help notes" in >= v1.6.6) to the corresponding commits. Then they don't
> > pollute the commit messages, but instead live in a separate, but
> > parallel hierarchy that can be easily pulled in when you need to
> > reference them (e.g. GIT_NOTES_REF="refs/" git log).
> 
> Thanks, looks better than munging the log.  Though with one common
> weakness - should likely omit noting mass commits, since they'd clutter
> what 'git log' displays too much.  Of course, either could used combined
> with a mapping table.

Of course, you wouldn't put the cvs revision numbers on the default notes 
ref ("refs/notes/commits"). You would rather put them on a _different_ notes 
refs (e.g. "refs/notes/cvs"), where they would not clutter you "git log", 
and then when you _need_ to look at them, you simply run:

  GIT_NOTES_REF=refs/notes/cvs git log


...Johan

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