Re: On the nature of cover letters [WAS Re: [PATCH 0/6] Create Git/Packet.pm]

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Nov 2, 2017, 18:03 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kZRymJxosAFOjGDzmzMk_ZxqDwdNv-V2510L2DwDdkr2Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171102080111.edh5wqyklkoqkvlg@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 1:01 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 04:48:45PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>>
>> > If the clutter is too much, it could also go into a git-notes ref
>> > (that's not already implemented, but it seems like it would be pretty
>> > easy to teach "git am" to do that).
>>
>> FWIW, that is what I use a notes ref "amlog" for.
>
> Right, I completely forgot that you were already doing that. So jumping
> to the thread for a commit is basically:
>
>   $browser $(git notes --ref=amlog show $commit |
>              perl -pe 's{Message-Id: <(.*)>}{https://public-inbox.org/git/$1/t}')
>
> (Or whichever archive you prefer to use). Thanks for the reminder.
>

Thanks from my side as well. I did not pay attention when this was introduced and see the notes ref for the first time today.

I'll incorporate that into my digging repertoire.

Thanks, Stefan