Re: Git Notes - Track rebase/etc + reverse-lookup for bugs ideas

From: Thomas Harning <harningt@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 10, 2008, 20:26 UTC
Message-ID: <74EBEC20-FC39-444E-8B96-31E5B36894B8@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0811102049460.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Nov 10, 2008, at 2:51 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:37:20PM -0500, Thomas Harning wrote:
>>
>>> Just wondering, has there been any looking into whether the git- 
>>> notes
>>> concept can track rebases?
>>
>> Not that I know of, but then again, I'm not sure exactly what you  
>> mean
>> by "track rebases".
>
> I guess he means that you could have something like this
>
> 	rebased from <SHA-1>
>
> in the notes for any given commit, so that _if_ you have the commit,  
> e.g.
> gitk could show that connection (maybe dashed in the graphical history
> display, and as a "Rebased from:" link).

What I intended is that if notes are attached to 'A', A` (after a rebase) will have the exact same note.