git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: Lost association between TAGS and COMMITs when rebased a git(1) repository

From
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Sep 4, 2011, 18:43 UTC
Message-ID
<201109042043.01159.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To
<CABNEGjyXLnSvjhBewNDsjW=rthRh0HY+KgC05vPNPu5QCaAgXQ@mail.gmail.com>
Tor Arntsen wrote:
Show 16 quoted lines
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 4:30 PM, knittl <knittl89@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:32 AM, John S. Urban <urbanjost@comcast.net> wrote:
> > > With my first use of git(1) I  created a small project with about 200
> > > "commits".  When this was complete, I needed to label each commit with
> > > information pointing it to a section of a document. I used tags for this.
> >
> > Use git notes[1] to attach additional info to existing commits. Git
> > notes will by default be copied when using git rebase or git commit
> > --amend (cf. notes.rewrite.<command> config)
> 
> Is that true? I've always lost the notes when rebasing. I just tried
> that again now (1.7.5.4), and after a rebase the notes attached to any
> commit that was rebased just disappeared. I've always had to hunt down
> and re-create the notes. It would indeed be much more convenient if
> the notes would tag along.

Yes, that support has been present since 1.7.1, but it's not enabled by default: you need to configure notes.rewriteRef.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
Previous: Tor ArntsenNext: Tor Arntsen
Message 11 of 20 in “Lost association between TAGS and COMMITs when rebased a git(1) repository”
  1. John S. UrbanSep 4, 2011
  2. PJ WeisbergSep 4, 2011
  3. Michael WittenSep 4, 2011
  4. Michael WittenSep 4, 2011
  5. Philip OakleySep 4, 2011
  6. knittlSep 4, 2011
  7. knittlSep 4, 2011
  8. Michael WittenSep 4, 2011
  9. Jakub NarebskiSep 4, 2011
  10. Tor ArntsenSep 4, 2011
  11. Thomas RastSep 4, 2011
  12. Tor ArntsenSep 4, 2011
  13. John S. UrbanSep 4, 2011
  14. Documentation: "on for all" configuration of notes.rewriteRefThomas Rast, Sep 4, 2011
  15. Tor ArntsenSep 4, 2011
  16. Jeff KingSep 7, 2011
  17. Thomas RastSep 7, 2011
  18. Jeff KingSep 7, 2011
  19. Michael WittenSep 4, 2011
  20. John S. UrbanSep 4, 2011

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.