Re: Notes and submodules

From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 20, 2013, 08:39 UTC
Message-ID: <CAC9WiBiJQ-kafY5xD9nAnxKPQTyhp5sL49szHQj4C4P_UbBmYg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALKQrgfGUMrcR+EPTvN9+mFPcW6Q-zv1JM6MJK-61BvF3yYpbQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> wrote:

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> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is it possible to keep submodules notes in the super project  ?
>
> Not easily. I guess it depends on what you want to use the notes for.
> In order for notes to be generally useful (i.e. show up in logs,
> surviving a notes prune, etc.) they really must reside in the same
> repo as the annotated objects [1]. Now, if all your interaction with
> notes happens through scripts that you control, then I guess it would
> be possible to hack this in some sort of semi-workable way, but you
> would still have to make sure never to run "git notes prune" in the
> super project. I guess the real question here is: Why would you want
> to do this? and is there maybe some other way your use case can be
> accomodated?
>

Well, I'm tracking different foreign git repositories as submodules. Those repositories which tracks different projects are not mine therefore I can't save my own stuff directly in them. I need to annotate some commits in each submodule.

One option would be to clone each repository in my own place, but I though it would be simpler if I could store the anntotion in _my_ super project.

Thanks for your time.

-- 
Francis