Re: Idea: "git format-patch" should get more information out of git

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Aug 30, 2011, 15:41 UTC
Message-ID: <4E5D048D.4010902@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110830152217.GA13022@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 30.08.2011 17:22:

> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 02:21:13PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:

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>> Anyways, notes survive rebase etc.
> 
> You still have to manually configure:
> 
>   git config notes.rewriteRef refs/notes/commits
> 
> Perhaps that is something that should be changed.

Right, I've done that quite a while ago and forgot.

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>> and at format-patch time you can decide whether you want to include
>> them or not (with my patch).
> 
> Yeah. Don't get me wrong, I think putting "---" notes into git-notes is
> way more flexible. It's just that it's also more complex, and
> unnecessarily so for many use cases.
> 
> We have some patches to hide that complexity, but I was at one point
> wondering if all of the complexity was worthwhile. But as I mentioned
> above, if you want to build anything more complex than a pure-patch
> workflow, the simple solution breaks down. So it probably is worth
> pursuing.

Reminds me of the ref namespace restructuring which could help sharing notes... Oh, lots to do before git 3.0!

Michael