From: Thomas Harning <harningt@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:37:20 GMT
Subject: Git Notes - Track rebase/etc + reverse-lookup for bugs ideas
Message-ID: <6A0F154C-B9FE-4770-BF70-82A5BEBF907C@gmail.com>

Just wondering, has there been any looking into whether the git-notes  
concept can track rebases?


Reading over what git-notes is leads me to think it could be a good  
mechanism for the distributed bug-tracking idea I had some time ago.
The only gotcha I see is that there would have to be some reverse  
mapping / fast lookup to track the commit objects that given notes are  
attached to.... and to facilitate individual assignment... notes  
applied to notes.


Example structure:

Commits A B C D
Notes   BUG
Notes	nA nC    == bug notes

A <- nA
|\
B C <- nC
|/
D


nA <- BUG
nB <- BUG


Operations for bug-tracking:

1) List all 'BUG'-type items that would refer to individual notes
2) List 'BUG' items reachable from a point
    Perhaps with criterion that a certain 'bug note' attribute is not  
set...
    or that a 'BUG_CLOSED' note is not attached to the given 'bug note'


... this seems to be somewhat of an extreme abuse of the notes  
system... but I could imagine it may have uses outside...