Re: Commit annotations (editable commit messages)

From: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 13, 2010, 01:01 UTC
Message-ID: <ca433831002121701u7c4e47ddn2f8bc19c45b2bd03@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <op.u71e00v4m02fvl@cybershadow.mshome.net>

2010/2/12 Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow@gmail.com>:

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>> It sounds like you want to read about a new feature called git-notes:
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-notes.html
>
> Wow, thanks! Looks like I'm behind the times. (Currently stuck with
> msysGit/1.6.5)

Yes, what you described sounds *exactly* like git-notes :)

> The documentation looks pretty scant. Does anyone know how close were my
> suggestions to the actual implemented behavior (esp. regarding rebasing)?

1, 2, 3, and 4 are all implemented, as far as I know. However, I don't think notes copy during a rebase. My gut feeling is that you probably shouldn't be rebasing so much that this is an issue. I'm guessing that you should copy the note to the new commit ID after the rebase.

I have also found the documentation lacking. It helped a bit to see the history. It's pretty compact in the logs. Here are two commands to isolate the commits:

git log --reverse fed8a7de3592~..df27f6280545 gitk fed8a7de3592..df27f6280545

-- Mark