Re: Does anyone use git-notes?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 25, 2010, 22:42 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin=VXp2BU0vhTLUy6MpJ7spXRs1dZC1wygoN6T-@mail.gmail.com>

Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> writes:

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> I would like to write a post on how to use them, but I'm a bit
> confused as to how people actually use them on a day to day basis.  I
> appears to me in trying to work out a flow for them that the lack of
> an ability to merge them makes them very difficult to use for anything
> practical.  Can someone share with me how they use them and what the
> cycle is?

I have a custom post-applypatch hook (see my "todo" branch) enabled and then use the amlook script (again, see my "todo" branch) script to inspect the corresponding notes tree.

After applying a received patch e-mail, the result is annotated with enough information to identify which message it came from by the hook. When I am scouring the mailing list backlog to see if I have missed something interesting (sometimes I find interest in a topic that I thought totally uninteresting earlier), the amlook script is used to see if the patch has been already applied.

Looking through millions of notes this way won't scale (iow, amlook is a bad example of using this feature, as the notes tree is used as a database index in the wrong direction), by the way, so you may probably not want to use it as a good example.