Re: Does anyone use git-notes?

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Aug 25, 2010, 18:52 UTC
Message-ID: <201008252052.37524.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin=VXp2BU0vhTLUy6MpJ7spXRs1dZC1wygoN6T-@mail.gmail.com>

Scott Chacon wrote:

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> I would like to write a post on how to use them, but I'm a bit
> confused as to how people actually use them on a day to day basis.  I
> appears to me in trying to work out a flow for them that the lack of
> an ability to merge them makes them very difficult to use for anything
> practical.  Can someone share with me how they use them and what the
> cycle is?

I run a cronjob that downloads mail from gmane and fetches git.git, then attempts to correlate mail with commits. The results are at

  git://repo.or.cz/git/trast.git notes/terse notes/full

I have previously posted about this at e.g.

  http://mid.gmane.org/200902091508.11460.trast@student.ethz.ch
  http://mid.gmane.org/201003042321.36240.trast@student.ethz.ch

though I should point out that it no longer tries to apply the patches as outlined in the first post; this was simply way too expensive.

I also use it when heavily editing a patch series to tack little reminders on my fixup patches. I have

  $ git config alias.fixup
  !sh -c 'r=$1; git commit -m"fixup! $(git log -1 --pretty=%s $r)"' -

so I usually do

  # hack
  git add -p
  git fixup HEAD~3
  git notes add -m 'fix foo'

which combined with notes.rewriteRef=refs/notes/* (and notes.rewriteMode left at the default of 'concatenate') means that I end up having a little list of reminders what changed since the last revisions. I then simply clear them out before starting a new round.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch