Re: notes metadata?

From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 7, 2010, 13:27 UTC
Message-ID: <2cfc40321002070527v3649add4sccbc771d3a51f9e2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <cb7bb73a1002070350j750287abl43de4d936a47acef@mail.gmail.com>

This is already done refs/notes/commits (or any other notes ref) is a normal commit and so any edits to the notes are thus tracked in the normal way.

To see this add a note, then use:

    gitk notes/commits.

Regards,

jon.

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hello all,
>
> ok, this may sound a little odd especially with the 'notes vs
> metadata' thread going on, but I was wondering: do we store _any_ kind
> of metadata _about_ the notes themselves? If I'm reading the code
> correctly, we have neither author nor date information about the notes
> themselves, so we don't know who added them or when. Is it too late to
> suggest that this kind of metadata be added to notes? Making them
> full-blown commit-style objects is probalby overengineered and wrong
> under many points of view (not to mention probably incompatible with
> current storage), but maybe we can set up a convention that notes
> SHOULD be in pseudo-mbox format? This would mean that when a note is
> created, the template starts with a 'From ' line including the user's
> name &  email and note creation date; when editing, the note is again
> augmented with the new author name email and date. Of course the users
> are then free do expunge the From lines if they don't want it (just
> commenting it would be enough, of course). How does the idea sound?
>
> --
> Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
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