Re: git notes: notes

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Jan 24, 2010, 14:20 UTC
Message-ID: <vpq7hr7zism.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <7veilk1o3s.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
>
>> No, but outputting the note as part of the log is the standard. So for
>> example, when you do a format-patch | apply cycle, format-patch will
>> insert the note as part of the commit message, and apply will *store*
>> the note text (including Note:\n) as part of the commit message of the
>> new commit.
>
> Thanks; that was the kind of breakage report I was looking for (and wished
> to have heard a lot earlier).  Personally I find it is unexcusable that
> format-patch defaults to giving notes.

OTOH, format-patch could give the notes, below the ---, where it will be ignored by apply. That would make notes handy to prepare a patch serie with additional messages: prepare everything within Git, and use git send-email to send it.

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Matthieu Moy
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