From: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:40:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Does anyone use git-notes?
Message-ID: <4C756395.6020103@workspacewhiz.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin=VXp2BU0vhTLUy6MpJ7spXRs1dZC1wygoN6T-@mail.gmail.com>

  ----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Chacon
Date: 8/25/2010 12:15 PM
> 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 do.  I use them to automatically store a matching Perforce revision 
number for a given Git commit.  Only the server assigns them due to the 
merging issues.  I also change the ref, so they read as p4notes.

It irks me, though, that they show in the gitk --all view.  ARGH!

Josh