From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:07:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] gitweb: notes feature
Message-ID: <7vwrys7lrm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201002041821.22864.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

>> IOW, the code should be reading output from:
>> 
>>     GIT_NOTES_REF=$note_ref git show -s --format=%N $co{'id'}
>> 
>> as the notes tree may not be storing notes in a flat one-level namespace
>> like you are assuming.
>
> First, for some mechanism of deployment (IIRC Apache's mod_perl) changes
> to environment variables from CGI script are not passed to invoked
> commands (I guess for security reasons).

I do not believe you are unable to spawn

	open $fd, '-|' 'sh', '-c', "GIT_NOTES_REF=$note_ref git show ..." 

and read from it ;-).

For possible enhancement to make notes easier to use, see the other
response.