Re: Patch-to-mail notes resurrected

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 22, 2013, 15:20 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <87bo96rivt.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

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> As some might remember, I made a script that writes notes (as in
> git-notes) linking patches to emails back in 2009:
>
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/109074
>
> I resurrected this idea the other week, using a faster implementation
> (the N command in fast-import is great!) and generating better links.
> I am regularly pushing the results to
>
>   git://github.com/trast/git.git
>   git://repo.or.cz/git/trast.git
>
> branches
>
>   notes/gmane        a link to the gmane thread view, focused on this patch
>   notes/message-id   the raw message-id
>
> Point your notes.displayRef at one or both to use them.
>
> It still fails to match some commits, so consider this WIP, but I think
> it's quite useful already.

Thanks ;-)