Re: Does anyone use git-notes?

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Aug 26, 2010, 08:09 UTC
Message-ID: <4C762137.1090801@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin=VXp2BU0vhTLUy6MpJ7spXRs1dZC1wygoN6T-@mail.gmail.com>

Scott Chacon venit, vidit, dixit 25.08.2010 20:15:

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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 use it to store the patch comments (the part that goes after the "---", before the diff) along with my commits so that I have them in my git.git tree, not only in my mbox. This makes it also easier to redo a patch and keep the comment when regenerating the patch e-mail with format-patch. (I don't have a good solution for the cover letter yet.)

Michael