Re: [OT] How to get the discussion details via notes
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- Drew Northup <n1xim.email@gmail.com>
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- Oct 31, 2012, 12:29 UTC
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de> wrote:
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> Dropping the Cc list, as this is off topic > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:05:29PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Sverre Rabbelier wrote: >> >> > Thanks for the thorough explanation. Perhaps some of that could make >> > it's way into the commit message? >> >> It's fine with me if it doesn't, since the original commit message >> covers the basics (current behavior and intent of the change) in its >> first two paragraphs and anyone wanting more detail can use >> >> GIT_NOTES_REF=refs/remotes/charon/notes/full \ >> git show --show-notes <commit> >> >> to find more details. > > I seem to miss something here, but I don't get it how the notes ref > becomes magically filled with the details of this discussion. > > Care to explain?
If I have an email thread I'd like to store alongside a commit I'll put that into a note, but I usually don't push that kind of thing out to a remote repo. Does that help?
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