From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:52:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFH] Fun things with git-notes, or: patch tracking backwards
Message-ID: <7vbpt9lxax.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200902102342.29962.trast@student.ethz.ch>

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

> Thomas Rast wrote:
>>   git fetch git://repo.or.cz/git/trast.git mailnotes &&
>>   GIT_NOTES_REF=FETCH_HEAD git log origin/pu
>
> An update: I have fully automated the process, it now fetches mails
> from Gmane over HTTP which gives it the Gmane URLs for free.  I'm
> rather happy with the latter feature, especially since Konsole has a
> feature to recognize and open links directly.
>
> I have imported all commits, and mails since roughly July 2008
> (starting with Gmane 89000).  In this timeframe there were 1802
> non-merge commits, and the mailnotes tree now holds 1122 annotations.

Wonderful.