From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:11:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Cross-referencing the Git mailing list archive with their corresponding commits in `pu`
Message-ID: <3F7E4C9E-593E-4FC5-B820-E6A0CDEB7476@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqwpd316f7.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>


> On 06 Feb 2017, at 20:10, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
>> So I thought maybe the From: line (from the body, if available, otherwise
>> from the header) in conjunction with the "Date:" header would work.
> 
> FYI, I use a post-applypatch hook to populate refs/notes/amlog notes
> tree when I queue a new patch; I am not sure how well the notes in
> it are preserved across rebases, but it could be a good starting
> point.  The notes tree is mirrored at git://github.com/git/gitster
> repository.
> 
> E.g.
> 
> $ git show --notes=amlog --stat

That's super useful! Thanks for the pointer!
Wouldn't it make sense to push these notes to github.com/git/git ?

- Lars